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With the exception of the Yankees (and maybe even including the Yankees) those teams spend a LOT on the draft too. The Rays have made it three of the last four years and have done it almost exclusively through the draft. The Rangers have a lot of homegrown talent, the Cardinals as well. Even the Red Sox have a lot of homegrown guys. The only team that seems to build exclusively through free agency is the Yankees.
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1-10 out there this morning #1 & 2 are the Padres and the Blue Jays Kenny's recent trading partners...... At least he is dealing the deepest systems
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The Yankees start just as much homegrown guys as the Red Sox do.
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I'm having a hard time thinking of anyone in the last 10 years. This last 10 years has brought us the likes of Brian Anderson and Josh Fields. Beckham was supposed to be our one homegrown success thanks to our #8 overall pick in 2008, but he's looking more and more like another bust. Chris Sale looks promising. We'll see what Brent Morel does after his rookie season. Also, it sounds like Addison Reed might be someone to look forward to. KW has had success in picking up talent from other farms systems via trades (Danks, Floyd, Quentin) but we're several years removed from those successes. That's probably the closest we've come in the last 10 years to developing our own talent. Aside from the new CBA helping the Sox, is there anything that we can hope current Sox ownership will do improve this organization's lack of talent? I seem to recall that they supposedly had a "shakeup" around 2008 (when they brought in Buddy Bell). It's 3 or 4 years later and things still look pretty bad. It's not very likely to build a consistently winning organization without having a good farm system as part of the mix.
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My point was that successful teams have a lot of homegrown talent mixed in with free agents. Even those Yankee dynasties of the 1990s and early 2000s had a lot of homegrown talent. |
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I think the caveat was "with the Sox." Kenny's traded away a number of minor leaguers who have turned out to be fairly serviceable players in the majors.
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Chicken or the egg. Yes, KW has overpaid for average or above average players, Gio and Hudson (I'm sure I'm missing some more) would be nice for our team right now. Then again, when you give him jack**** to work with (lack of scouts, both domestic and international, low budget to spend on draft picks), what's he supposed to do?
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No, the minor league director does that, when KW held that position the farm system was rather highly rated.
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He was drafted in 1998 and came up with the Sox in 2001. That's a really long time since the Sox developed their own quality MLB player.
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- Gio Gonzalez - Daniel Hudson - Chris Young - Matt Guerrier This means that KW usually doesn't have as many pieces to deal to get quality players either. |
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