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Sox are number 23. Says what a lot of us felt that after Gordon our draft was really suspect. He went so far to say we would have been bottom 5 before picking up Flowers and signing Dayan (although he thinks Dayan is too heavy). Atleast we moved up some, but our farm is still incredibly sub par overall.
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In Callis' chat today he mentioned that he had us at #14. |
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For those who don't want to wade through all the questions in the chat, he ranked the AL Central Farm Systems as follows:
Indians - 7 Royals - 9 White Sox - 14 Twins - 22 Tigers - 25 |
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Farm system rankings mean nothing. The White Sox were once ranked #1 and most of their big prospects turned into average at best major leaguers or insurance salesman. I would rather have my prospects see they are ranked fairly low. Maybe they will think they have something to prove.
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Two thoughts... First, they've pretty much brought their entire system up in the last 5 years and second, it's amazing how hard it is to draft good talent when you are winning the division 4 times in 6 years and just missing a 5th time and thus drafting bottom 7 slots on a consistent basis.
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Seems like a lot of people here like to believe the Twins just have unbelievable draft after unbelievable draft, and their farm is just crawling with talent. |
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their secondary players? that do a good job of stressing fundamentals and the like with those guys so they don't have a lot of gaping holes in their games, but they have had a lot of impact players that were either very high draft picks or just great talents. |
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The Sox draft position is very overblown as an excuse as to why they haven't developed players. The only 2 players on the 2005 world championship team the White Sox didn't have the opportunity to draft because they were off the board before they selected, were Konerko who went to LA with the 13th pick in 1994. The Sox picked 26th that year and picked Mark Johnson, and Jon Garland who was picked 10th in 1997. The Sox had the 15th pick that year and chose Jason Dellaro, one spot in front of Houston selecting Lance Berkman. There has always been good players available when their turn to select has come up, and for years they made bad decisions. Last edited by dickallen15; 01-22-2009 at 12:48 PM. |
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I said, for the most part, the guys that help them a lot are good, fundamentally sound players. The key words being, 'for the most part.' Johan, Nathan, and Liriano are not even products of the Twins' system. If you want to go this route, the Sox have been successful at nabbing other teams' top players, too (Danks, Floyd, Quentin, Jenks). The Sox also had a guy named Magglio Ordonez go through their system years ago (like Hunter). Mauer and Morneau are just great talents. One of them was from being so awful they got a top pick, the other was just a great snag. Let's not act like everyone that comes through their system is a Justin Morneau, though. It's more likely you will find a Buscher, a Casilla, a Kubel, etc. Last edited by oeo; 01-22-2009 at 11:11 AM. |
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They are great at teaching, through all their levels of developement they learn all the same things. It's not like they go to A and are told to drive the ball out of the park, then go to AA and told, put it on the ground and steal bases, it's a very fluid, well coached, well managed minor league system. |
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Also, when asked to chose the best Sox prospect amongst a group that included Beckham, Danks, and Quentin, he selected Beckham. Now, he may have dismissed Danks and Quentin from the list because he no longer considered them prospects, but if not, that is quite an endorsement of Beckham!
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