FredLynn
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Bogaerts could end up better than Middlebrooks, but he is only in A ball right now. He has potential. Many with potential fall out after reaching their own level of incompetence. I would take a guy with good numbers in AAA ball over a guy with great numbers in A ball any day.
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I thought it was Bowden.
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The "higher level guys" have proven themselves at a higher level. By then many of the Middlebrooks type prospects have been weeded out. By the time you make it successfully to AAA you should be considered valuable enough to your team to raise its ranking.
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CP would never admit that Valentine is an upgrade
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How do you know that? I assume that the rankings take into account ALL the talent in the farm system.Do you have a reference for your claim? I think that when you rank farm systems, there are the following categories: upper eschelon, middle of the pack, and lower eschelon. Hopefully the guys with potential will develop and help the team in 2-3 years. In the meantime, we have to make do.
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I did not know that.
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I don't blame you. You have the right to defend yourself. I am not in control of what my friends write. I have enough trouble writing my own stuff. Here is another way to look at this. Lets grade them like a term paper. The top team gets 100%. Because there are 100 points and 30 teams, each place you go down in ranking gets about three points deducted. If we are at #12 we get a grade of 64%. At #18 we are below average at 46%. Lets face it: while we may have a lot of guys with potential, because the lack of highly rated prospects we do not have an exceptional farm system. I didn't make this stuff up. If you think otherwise, you find rankings that are better than 10.
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Posted earlier: Sure. I already mentioned that one source has them at #10. Another, from ESPN, places them at #18.
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If there is anything Mr Howard really hates, its being ignored. Wonder how long he will last here before returning to STFU....hmmm.
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Mr Howard chimes in.............yawwwwwwwwwwwwwn.
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Sure. I already mentioned that one source has them at #10. Another, from ESPN, places them at #18.
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I think those ranking numbers are pretty accurate. Perhaps once some of the guys in AA mature, if they mature, we will improve our position. Its particularly concerning that we don't have pitchers who are in a good position.
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None of the rankings place them in the upper eschelon.
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Several of us think he is a refugee from Sawxheads. He drinks too much and isn't particularly insightful. Eventually we drove him out.
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PM me then. I think its CP.
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You think its CP? Could be.
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LOL...as much as we agree on most things ELK, I have to disagree on this one. Cherington was given nothing to work with. I doubt he was even calling many of the shots. Since there was no choice called "Incomplete", even for the preseason, I had to give him a generous C. You cannot make bricks without straw, as my ancestors once said.
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And you copied it here because.......?
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That is a good assessment. We have a large number of guys with potential at the lower levels. Most will fall by the wayside. Now back to the original reason this discussion started, which is that Ben Cherington cannot be faulted for not scoring us a good SP because 1. Henry wouldn't pay for one and 2. We do not have the kind of farm system that can afford to surrender 3 or 4 prospects for such a player. Our strength is in numbers of players and we just can't trade the guys who constitute our top level away-unless its a steal.
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It doesn't matter what the REASON is that we are ranked in the middle third of farm systems in baseball; the fact of the matter is that that is where we stand. And there are very valid reasons for it. Let me explain it to you this way: if a baseball comes through your front window, does it matter that the reason it came through the front window is that the neighbor's kid threw it at your window? No. The window is broken regardless of how it got broken. The fact is that our farm system is ranked in the middle third by nearly all people who put out those rankings, regardless of how we got there.