Keith Law's farm system rankings

[Carp]

5 years and 150 picks ago - gotta love those odds, eh?

I mean most players of the last 4 drafts have been impacted by COVID. They lost an entire year of development in 2020. So you can't really judge it off that.

I will concede the point that it likely isn't common; however, it probably happens more than you think.

 

[thethe]

Its not about the physical pick.

Its about what you can do with a larger signing pool.

 

[CJ9]

Kiley's rankings got posted today and he has us #27. One interesting note - he says we have a deal in place for one of the top 2023 international talents, if it's not taken away by an international draft being put in place (which I thought was basically inevitable).

 

[clvclv]

I mean most players of the last 4 drafts have been impacted by COVID. They lost an entire year of development in 2020. So you can't really judge it off that.

I will concede the point that it likely isn't common; however, it probably happens more than you think.

That's my point - not that it doesn't happen, simply that it's the exception rather than the rule.

Having a larger pool doesn't increase the likelihood that the player you draft down in the 35-50 range gets to the majors any quicker (as thethe suggests) - it does potentially increase the talent level of the player taken in that range if someone slides. No one has said it wouldn't.

 

[clvclv]

Its not about the physical pick.

Its about what you can do with a larger signing pool.

You're still missing the point.

A larger pool does nothing to speed up a player's development time. You shouldn't need to look any further than Shewmake to understand that. Most "experts" thought his bat was quite advanced and that it wouldn't take much time for him to become a useful utility guy, but the consensus was it would take longer to figure out whether he might become an everyday option at SS. Three years later he's still waiting to get his first taste of AAA.