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Originally Posted by Jerok
You realize you can develop in the minors right? Club control is of vast importance to the Royals, so it makes sense to keep a guy a year too long at triple A vs bringing him up on a hopeless ballclub (who wont win for 2+ years)
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That's one way to look at it, but I'd rather have our young guys get their ML struggles out of the way instead of bringing them up when we are supposed to be good and then we have to send them to AAA because they suck and we need them to produce. How often do we have prospects come up and produce? Only ones I can remember are Whit and Hosmer. Yeah it delays service time, but it also extends the amount of time it will take to become competitive. By the time our prospects come up to the bigs and then start to produce, the guys that are on the ML team are older or gone.
So bring up the young guys to take their lumps and failures, so that in a year or two they should be productive.