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Originally Posted by Mecca
They have been so terrible at developing anything and the pitching is even worse...
You go top 5 pick on Asa Lacy and he's just a bag of shit and that list goes on and on and on.
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I'm being a little dramatic - I'd say half of your good prospects develop into genuine big leaguers and about half of those stay healthy enough to hit their ceiling.
So you're talking about 1 in 4 rather than 1 in 8.
But man, from Lacy, Singer, Kowar and Bubic you've GOTTA get at least a playoff caliber starter in there somewhere. A #2 at worst. You can't get a scenario where the best of that lot might be a little better than someone like Keller who who guys got as an organizational cast-off.
But it's just hard to know where to even begin. I'd say everyone in baseball should just be stealing talent from the Dodgers and Rays when it comes to organization building and then the Indians and Marlins when it comes to pitcher development.
Go poach some guys. Oh sure, there are gonna be coattail riding Pioli-like bitches in there, but that's the nice thing about a staff in baseball - there's a TON of collective wisdom. Steal lots of guys - some of them will be worth a shit.
And from an ROI standpoint, it's a HELL of a lot cheaper than torching draft and/or FA capital.