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Originally Posted by KChiefs1
If anyone was paying attention, you just saw a team that did something similar to what the Royals are doing play in the World Series. They did it through their farm system and trades (with the Braves no less). The Texas Rangers had the best farm system in the majors. They made trades (Cliff Lee) and build up their team.
The Royals are doing it the right way under a small market style. The Royals have a Who's who of minor league players at almost every position in the Minors. They have the best 3rd base prospect (Moose Tacos). They have 3 of the best pitching prospects. However, these kids are 2 years away from being stars. Baseball America is considering 11 players for minor league player of the year and four of them were Royals. It used to be that the Royals had 1 or 2 big time prospects in the minors, now they have 9 big time prospects. They have those Moos, Hosmer, Colon, Duffy, Lamb, Montgomery, Will Myers (maybe the best prospect, better numbers at C position than Joe Mauer and Buster Posey in minors and is only 19).
Most of these players spent last year in the A/AA league. They will need another year in AA/AAA before they jump to the Majors, but don't let that fool you, scouts are gushing over some of these propects. The Royals will try to get all of them in the Majors for a couple years together.
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I don't think anyone in this thread is complaining about the farm system; most of us are aware and excited. However, many of Dayton's decisions at the major league level have been questionable at best. The fear is that once the young guys are ready, DM won't be capable of making the right moves (trading arms for bats for example) to actually mold a winner.
He was on 810 this morning, and when providing a scouting report on Mazzaro, led off with, "Scout X had Mazzaro touching 97 with his fastball last season". Bullshit. Either he's trying to make fans feel better about the trade, or he's projecting what he hopes Mazzaro can be, not what he is. The latter is very dangerous, and I think it's happened before with other players we've acquired (Yuni, Farnsworth, Ankiel, etc.).
Another point, DM spoke this morning about our OF depth, and mentioned that Myers was likely going to play some outfield this coming season; I think we can officially pencil him into RF in future lineups.