Jon Singleton and Astros agree on historic long-term deal

[Angrioter]

So you ride Minaya to the games?

 

Funny guy ^^

[ElNik2013]

Look at what happened to the Royals! They had the best farm system ever and totally blew it. And not all of that can be attributed to GMDM's incompetence.

 

 

How did they blow it? And if they did, what did they blow?

 

The thing about rebuilding is that you run the risk of prospects not panning out at all, but also not panning out at the same time.

 

As much as it's easy to blast the Royals' F/O for trading away Myers++ for Shields and Davis, they probably decided they couldn't wait for all these hot shot prospects to hopefully put it together at the same time.

[TheHurl]

Look at what happened to the Royals! They had the best farm system ever and totally blew it. And not all of that can be attributed to GMDM's incompetence.

 

Take a look at their 2011 prospect list (this one from BP). It has provided them with 2 starting pitchers, starters at catcher, 1B, 3B, one of the best part time OF's and 3 relievers. They used three of the players (Myers, Monty and Odorizzi) to get them a starter that provide them 4.7 WAR last year and a reliever that's among the best in baseball. Really that's pretty good for a farm in just three years. Add in Gordon and Butler to that mix. The issue is that they only have those two guys and Greg Holland from the 2010 team contributing. Greinke was dealt for Escobar, Odorizzi and Cain. Soria they let walk. So pretty much they got what you can expect out of a top farm (11 contributing players)...they just were starting with nothing and added nothing else of consequence. They also have never thought much about pitching depth (something I ripped AA for last year) and that is one of their biggest issues.

 

 

1. Mike Moustakas, 3B

2. Eric Hosmer, 1B

3. Wil Myers, OF

4. Mike Montgomery, LHP

5. John Lamb, LHP

6. Jake Odorizzi, RHP

7. Danny Duffy, LHP

8. Christian Colon, SS

9. Chris Dwyer, LHP

10. Yordano Ventura, RHP

11. Jeremy Jeffress, RHP

12. Brett Eibner, OF

13. Tim Collins, LHP

14. Aaron Crow, RHP

15. Tim Melville, RHP

16. Jason Adam, RHP

17. Cheslor Cuthbert, 3B

18. Salvador Perez, C

19. Robinson Yambati, RHP

20. Louis Coleman, RHP

21. Johnny Giavotella, 2B

22. Patrick Keating, RHP

23. Derrick Robinson, OF

24. David Lough, OF

25. Noah Arguelles, LHP

26. Jarrod Dyson, OF

27. Humberto Arteaga, SS

28. Crawford Simmons, LHP

29. Lucas May, C

30. Jeff Bianchi, SS

[Caper]

Hurl. What do you think of the Jays depth this year? I think it's a lot better then we could have expected.

[G-Snarls]

Apparently the MLBPA isn't happy about this and advised him not to sign it because it could hurt everyone's arbitration salaries in the future.

[flafson]

My guess is, Houston's computer told them hes the next Trout.

They seem to do everything that their computer tells them. One of their current starters is also someone they picked off waivers that the computer told them to.

[TheHurl]

Hurl. What do you think of the Jays depth this year? I think it's a lot better then we could have expected.

 

all off season I said that the Jays were in much better shape depth wise and the team is finally starting to use some of it's starting pitching depth as relievers (there should be no such thing as minor league relief depth) and maybe now using players with options to spot start and give extra days of rest to the starters not named Buehrle and Dickey. The past 2 or 3 weeks the team has been making more roster management decisions that I suggested in the off season (essentially mimicking the Cards but with a bit smaller of a talent pool to choose from) so I can't complain about how they have ran the team during that time (and no I'm not taking any credit for the better play). We'll see how they handle things when Morrow and Rasmus come back...that'll be a test to see if they just fluked into better decisions or actually have learned from their mistakes.

[Angrioter]

Mark Mulder

Just saw contract this #astros prospect signed. Either he doesn't believe in himself to be great or he has a terrible agent who wants the 4%