I'm not denying that. But as far as I'm concerned if Bryant and Baez work out I am not complaining.
Now on Almora I believe they should have snagged Appel when he fell.
Regardless I'm going on 38 year bearing with this team. There has been more bad years than good years. If it works I'll be excited. If it doesn't well it will be a let down.
But I havn't seen a dedication into the farm sense Green was running the team. I like that part. The whole not spending I again don't care for. But we wouldn't have Bryant or for that matter a shot at Appel. We would be looking at bigger dice rolls and less to spend to sign them.
The point here is the Cubs had a shitty system with little talent. Bad coaching that was not producing quality. Basically the Boat the Yanks are in with out their resource to buy a team.
Ya it sucks to wait but it is not like no team has done this before. I happen to remember Texas sucking for years while building a farm and now they are in it every year.
Try to not look at it short sighted and see other teams that have had sucess walking this path.
Yes the Cards are an exception. So are the Yanks. They just toss cash cause they can. Braves dedicate to the draft. Texas still has a sold farm. Bo-Sox still continuing what Theo started. And so on.
Regarding shark: if he wants to be a pain I would deal him. All he does is ***** instead of leading the staff. Dude needs to learn to shut up and let his performance dictate his market value.
Correct me if I'm wrong because I am going strictly by memory, and at my age, I'm sure it will show here. In the late 1990's and early 2000's a few guys were in the so-called "system that never was".
Out of that, their will be some hyped, some good, and some less than stellar prospects named Zambrano, Jon Garland, Juan Cruz, Prior, Patterson, Wood, Farnsworth, Rich Hill, Dontrelle Willis (notable used to acquire Clement and Alfonseca), Bobby Hill (used to acquire A-Ram), Choi (used to acquire Derek Lee), Mitre, Nolasco, and Pinto (used to acquire Pierre). Not saying that all trades were successful, but point being is the Cubs had to have a farm to net those players.
Now couple that with the prospects who were not fortunate to ever have success and were complete busts, and you had Cubs 1st picks in Christenson, Montanez, Brownlie, and Harvey. So other than Mark Prior, the Cubs had 4 busts with their 1st picks out of 5 years. Who'd-a-thunkit, but what could have been IF 3 of 5 versus 1 of 5 those players had panned out?
The farm is fine and all that but when the Cubs put the caliber of players like Sosa and Alou out on the field every day to compliment the young players and also get some good arms on this team, only then will they start to resemble the 2003 squad. That team was poised for the most sustained success and the current Cubs are pretty far away from getting to that point.
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