Minor League Thread Part Deux

Tapate50 said:
Yeah the mid season update would likely land us 5 guys or more on the top 100 with more work to their names.
It is mentioned a few times that top 100 was easily within reach for around 8\9 guys.

Some of the cold climate bats are showing promise. Those can be tough to nail.

Gil showing up built like a brick shithouse also helps. Said he's up 15 lbs of muscle.
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So the opposite of Maitan?
 
Tapate50 said:
Yeah the mid season update would likely land us 5 guys or more on the top 100 with more work to their names.
It is mentioned a few times that top 100 was easily within reach for around 8\9 guys.

Some of the cold climate bats are showing promise. Those can be tough to nail.

Gil showing up built like a brick shithouse also helps. Said he's up 15 lbs of muscle.
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Problem is, people like Ritchie and Fuentes and maybe another or two will probably already have blown through their eligibility by that point. So, then, we’re right back to where we are now.
 
CyYoung31 said:
Seems like Ritchie and Fuentes should be 55s and Caminiti, Tornes, and Gil should be 50+.

Also, their pitch grades and write up for Sinnard sounds like he should be a 50 as well.

But, those guys at the top, from what I know and have seen of them, I don’t think 45’s are doing them justice.
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For guys as young as Tornes and Gil I'm fine putting them in the 45 band until they move up, but seems like you'd mark them 45+ given the upside potential

After looking at the Fangraphs FV scale linked in the article, I'm not sure why Ritchie and Fuentes aren't 55s. Their write ups call them both potential 3/4s which is the definition of a 55.
 
I won't whine too much about prospect analysts rating our farm poorly, but I do think it's straightforwardly true that our farm has had pretty dismal rankings for several years now and it keeps churning out one or two guys per year who make an impact on the big league team. Baldwin last year, Schwellenbach in 2024, Strider and Harris in 2022, etc. You could even stretch it and say Elder in 2023.

It certainly seems like the farm has consistently outperformed its rankings in recent years. Should that impact how non-partisan evaluators assess the system? Maybe not. But it's not hard to see it happening again this year with Fuentes and/or Ritchie.
 
MadduxFanII said:
I won't whine too much about prospect analysts rating our farm poorly, but I do think it's straightforwardly true that our farm has had pretty dismal rankings for several years now and it keeps churning out one or two guys per year who make an impact on the big league team. Baldwin last year, Schwellenbach in 2024, Strider and Harris in 2022, etc. You could even stretch it and say Elder in 2023.

It certainly seems like the farm has consistently outperformed its rankings in recent years. Should that impact how non-partisan evaluators assess the system? Maybe not. But it's not hard to see it happening again this year with Fuentes and/or Ritchie.
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Fuentes , Ritchie, Braun, Baumann, are all likely contributors
 
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