That trade might be somewhat surprising against the backdrop that has the Brewers ranked third and the Red Sox 16th in MLB.com’s midseason farm system rankings:
MLB Pipeline's 2023 midseason farm system re-ranks
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Ranking farm systems -- comparing groups of a couple hundred prospects in 30 different organizations -- is, at best, a mostly subjective exercise, and at worst, all but impossible to do well.
Yet the teams that place near the top in MLB Pipeline's biannual rankings almost always parlay their prospects