Originally Posted by
rico43
Some day, somebody's gonna blow the whistle on Baseball America's farm system ratings. You system is important for only two things: developing major leaguers, or developing talent you can trade for major leaguers. How many five-star, five-tool prospects who are languishing in the pipeline don't matter -- until they reach the majors. Even the so-so farm clubs have turned out the talent. I wish I had the list of MLB debuts for the last 20 years; it shows the Braves on average had at least five players from their system make their MLB debut every year. That's an amazing number. But here's this decade:
2014: Schlosser, THomas, S. Simmons, Shreve, Jaime, Buchter, La Stella -- and we've still got the September roster expansion to go.
2013: Hale, A. Wood, Bethancourt, Terdoslavich, Gosselin, Rasmus, Cunningham, and, oh, Gattis.
2012: A. Simmons, Pastornicky, Avilan
2011: Teheran, Gearrin, Delgado, Constanza, Vizcaino, and lest we forget, Matt Young and Antoan Richardson
2010: Venters, Minor, Kimbrel, Brandon Hicks, Heyward, Freeman, Beachy, Boscan,
If I'm the Braves PD people, I put that list against anyone's and tell them to kiss my butt.