Comments on: Evolution of the Farm System http://www.futureredbirds.net/2009/02/24/evolution-farm-system/ Baseball's Future in the Gateway City Fri, 17 May 2013 00:09:37 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: chuckb http://www.futureredbirds.net/2009/02/24/evolution-farm-system/comment-page-1/#comment-5521 chuckb Wed, 25 Feb 2009 02:24:47 +0000 http://www.futureredbirds.net/?p=2317#comment-5521 Nah! I long for the bygone days of Shaun Boyd and Mike Ferris! They’ll be missed.

]]> By: Easy http://www.futureredbirds.net/2009/02/24/evolution-farm-system/comment-page-1/#comment-5518 Easy Wed, 25 Feb 2009 00:02:50 +0000 http://www.futureredbirds.net/?p=2317#comment-5518 I’d like to weigh in on the question of where we’d like the farm system to head next. I think that the reason the team has emphasized the development of the system the last few years is that the brass saw the writing on the wall as far as the economics of the game goes. Building from within is cheaper than signing or trying to keep free agents and a plethora of prospects to choose from can keep a team competing annually. We’ve concentrated on building that plethora partially at the expense of taking big chances on high potential long shots. Beginning this year we will have a couple of high potential rookies and, if circumstances dictate, a wide variety of reasonable, cheap prospects at almost all of the positions to bring up when necessary. In fact we have so many of these B minus to C plus prospects that we will end up losing some of them in the rule 5 draft. Having built up the system as a whole I would hope we’d decide that we need to opt for long term quality rather than short term quantity. I would hope that we’d look more at high potential, long shot high schoolers (think Daryl Jones) in the early rounds rather than the Clay Mortensons and Adam Ottavinos of the baseball world. We’ve all noted that the system is full of guys who should eventually play in the majors but short on star quality prospects. I think that the brass is smart enough to realize the same thing which is why we’ve been aggressive in Latin America lately and why I suspect we’ll see a different kind of draft this year. We’ll see.

]]> By: Lou Schuler http://www.futureredbirds.net/2009/02/24/evolution-farm-system/comment-page-1/#comment-5512 Lou Schuler Tue, 24 Feb 2009 17:16:58 +0000 http://www.futureredbirds.net/?p=2317#comment-5512 I subscribe to the print edition, and this is the first I’ve seen it.

]]> By: The Personal Finance Playbook http://www.futureredbirds.net/2009/02/24/evolution-farm-system/comment-page-1/#comment-5511 The Personal Finance Playbook Tue, 24 Feb 2009 17:08:45 +0000 http://www.futureredbirds.net/?p=2317#comment-5511 That’s good writing. Nice post.

]]> By: Hugo http://www.futureredbirds.net/2009/02/24/evolution-farm-system/comment-page-1/#comment-5507 Hugo Tue, 24 Feb 2009 16:09:54 +0000 http://www.futureredbirds.net/?p=2317#comment-5507 Wow, long post on the day the 100 from BA was released.

Perez, 91
Wallace, 40
Rasmus, 3

At least the date at the top of each BA article list is today’s date. Most of you probably had read this before in the magazine but this is the first I saw it.

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