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Originally Posted by Prison Bitch
You can’t get lucky in MLB. The pipeline of development is too long and the rosters are so evenly balanced (your star hitter only comes to the plate every 9x etc). You can draft a Mahomes or Jokich and immediately vault to the top of those sports but obv mlb doesn’t work at all like that
He (1) had the best all time Baseball America prospect list in 2011, (2) made the gutsy Greinke AND Myers deals and (3) had a huge FA offseason in winter 2015.
He absolutely did not luck into that title. No way
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In a way he did because if you actually go through the lists of how championship teams were built, calling up an entire farm system of players at once and having it work out, never happens. All of the pitching failures, somehow getting competent play from Kendrys Morales, Chris Young etc
There was a level of luck to it, it's why when people point at this form of rebuild it's like what happened last time isn't the norm..what's more normal is you find 4-5 guys you keep around to be part of the next wave of guys and you don't really contend until that has happened 3 times.