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Originally Posted by Titty Meat
If you arent going to make the playoffs you might as well tank. Quit bitching and embrace the process.
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Yeah that's all fine and dandy until you remember the guy who's drafting and realize you're ****ed. Go back and looks at the 1st round draft picks since 2009;
(Year)(Player)(Yrs in majors W/KC)(WAR)
2009 - Crow 4 2.6
2010 - Colon. 4 1.8
2011 - Starling 0
2012 - Zimmer 1 -0.1
2013 - Dozier. 3 -1.3
2013 - Manaea. 0
2014 - Finnegan 2 0.6
2014 - Foster 0
2014 - Vallot 0
2015 - Watson. 0
2015 - Russel 0
2017- Pratto 0
From Crow to Dozier all of those guys are top 12 picks and everyone besides Crow and Dozier are top 5 picks. Then when you take into account the number of prospects in our system right now that are ranked in the top 100;
Baseball Prospectus 3 in top 100: Matias (52), Lee(61),Melendez(67)
CBS Sports 1 in top 100: Singer(70)
MLB.com 1 in top 100: Singer(53)
Fangraphs and ESPN no idea, don't pay for either.
The farm system really seems shitty. I do think Singer has a chance to be pretty damn good, but with our track record of pitcher development I won't get my hopes up. My favorite prospect is Khalil Lee. Hopefully he can get to triple A this year and then the majors sometime next year, but the most likely scenario is that the Royals sign some shit vet to play in front of him while Lee kills it in the minors and we are all wondering why he hasn't been called up yet.