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09-04-2020 03:17 PM |
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Originally Posted by OKchiefs
(Post 15148134)
I'd take Rocker and then take someone from our plethora of pitching prospects and trade for some bats.
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The problem is we don't have a "plethora". People have a wildly misinformed notion of what KCs minor league system is in relation to projected talent. We have the 37th, 40th, and 84th best prospects in the game that happen to be pitchers. None of those guys are considered a sure thing(or at least as close as you can get with pitchers). Maybe that changes next year if everyone does well and people finally get to see Lacy, but as of now, we have three pitchers with top 100 value.
And here's the rub with our "draft a million pitchers and ignore hitting" strategy. You can't actually leverage our "plethora" until multiple guys come through and we build a huge advantage with our staff. But that means we have to do what we are doing with singer and bubic and when they don't turn out to be anything amazing, their value goes down. Singer is less valuable today than he was at the beginning of the season. So by the time Lacy and mystery pitcher in next year's draft actually toe the mound in a royals uniform, we might have already figured out Kowar and Lynch and Singer and Bubic are just 3/4 type starters. Or some of them get hurt, or stall in the minors. Their value isn't all that amazing. Not worthless mind you, just nothing that is a headliner in a mega deal for a big bat. And suddenly this huge amount of pitching we supposedly have to trade is gone.
At that point, even if Lacy and mystery pitcher #2 are pretty good, we still have no plan B. Salvy will be gone, Merrifield will age out, mondesi may not even be on the team. Who knows if Soler holds up. That's the other flaw here: we aren't one bat away. Even if Witt is a 5 tool stud, we still need several more good hitters. We currently have just 1 guy who isn't even a top 100 prospect who might be an above average player. Heaven help us if Witt doesn't pan out, because it just gets more ugly after that. We certainly don't have enough pitching to go acquire 5 different bats and fill a bunch of holes.
I really, really hope I'm wrong, but the only way this works is if we get unbelievable luck with our pitching and land a best in baseball type rotation because that's the only way we have a chance to be good in 5 years.
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