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    You can't directly equate stock investments to player signings. Too many different variables involved, specially in the inexact science of player investment.
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    While reading the Boston.com website, i noticed they were touching on this subject. Given the leadership crisis on the Sox last year and Varitek not coming back as a player for 2012, should the Red Sox name a new captain? And who should it be? It may seem like a meaningless title, but they certainly need an identifiable face who can step up and be accountable (to an extent) for the team's actions. God knows they need it this year.
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    Pumpsie, i have no problem with you, but your friend Muggah is the very definition of an internet bully. Look at our discussion last night for proof. He needs to tone it down or he's going to get run off the site by an angry mob. On topic: Jacksonian's assessment of WMB vs Bogaerts is spot-on.
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    Didn't a couple reports just come out that Kuroda took less money from other teams to sign with the Yankees?
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    Define "clutch".
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    That's the point. It isn't always necessarily that way. Several talent evaluators consider Bogaerts (just out of A) as a more valuable prospect than Middlebrooks (At AAA). A lot of the time it's a ceiling issue. And a lot of the times, they're right when picking Guy A at A with a ceiling of A+ over guy B on the verge of making the Majors with a ceiling of B.
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    It's what Law said: "Keith Law ranked the Sox as having the 18th best farm system in the league, saying that the Red Sox are very thin at the top of the minor league chain due to the amount that the organization has spent on amateur players." Regardless of actual ceiling, they usually take higher-level guys as more valuable than a lower-level guy which could be regarded as more talented and a better prospect. To illustrate this, Law has Middlebrooks as the Sox' top prospect, while some of the publications that have the Sox at a higher levels usually have Bogaerts or Jacobs as ranked higher than him.
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    The problem with using the "current" rankings is that they are not based on the actual talent level of the farm system alone, but rather the amount of "impact-now" prospects they own. The basis for this discussion was the lack of talent to pull off trades without top guys, but Sickels' and Law's assessment dispels that notion. The problem here isn't the amount of talent in the system, it's the time it will take to reach the Majors. But that doesn't mean that type of talent is not coveted by other teams. Look at the Mark Teixeira trade: The "ready-now" piece was Salty, but the near-deal breaker was Neftali Feliz, with the other important part being Andrus. Texas coveted those two, even though they were far-off prospects with the "potential" tag on them, and look at how that turned out. I have never flat-out said that they're upper echelon. What i have disputed is that the farm is mediocre. There is a significant amount of low-level but high ceiling talent that other teams would find appealing.
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    So, B/R has them 10 and 12, Sickels has them 11, Law (your ESPN source) has them 18, but posts the caveat that the system is full of talent, but lacks "impact-now" players and expects the ranking to improve as players jump levels (this is important). One thing to note here, is that your friends' bully tactics are both unwelcome and ineffective. I would like to continue this discussion, but potshots at my intelligence will be responded in kind.
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    I love the homo eroticism in the room, but i don't see any comments about the B/R ranking with the Red Sox in the top 10? Anyone?
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    Personal attacks: The last resort of those without a viable argument. According to Bleacher Report: TOP 10 FARM SYSTEM!
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    You mean the rankings that aren't out yet? No s***, Sherlock!
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    Right, mr "my opinion is fact". The only irony here stems from you calling out anyone on anything. For the record, if we're going to take Bleacher Report as a credible source, here's a Bleacher Report article that ranks them in the top 10: http://bleacherreport.com/articles/1057599-power-ranking-the-best-farm-systems-in-mlb/page/11 Backpedaling in.....
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    By the way, as ORS previously posted, part of the bleacherreport post were copy-pastes from Sickel's reports. FYI.
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    That has absolutely nothing to do with the quality of their rankings. I could go post some rankings at B/R and none of you would ever know. Becoming a writer there is really not that hard. It's incredible how far people will go to defend something clearly incorrect.
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    Not a lot place them right in the middle either. Also several expect them to enter the "upper eschelon" as you call it, as their prospects get closer to their ETA's. Years of drafting high-ceiling HS talent will do that. People who follow farm systems closely get this, specially the Yankee fans. You admittedly don't care about or follow the minor leagues, so why run your mouth? What a joke.
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    Except that the two lowest rankings you gave were either from an inaccurate source (Bleacher report) or from the wrong year.
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    Let's categorize the insults why don't we!
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    In the post which you just quoted it says she did it to get a reaction.
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