Author Topic: Good new for the payrolls?  (Read 2004 times)

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Offline mimontero88

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Re: Good new for the payrolls?
« Topic Start: September 24, 2012, 10:55:28 PM »
They also knew that a fat high school kid that went undrafted would magically turn into the best pitching prospect in history... and would be available for them to draft #1? And if that's the case... why didn't they do more to assure that they ended up with the #1 pick... and not have to luck into the Mariners winning their last three games to get the pick?

That is hardly the point.  The point is that the worst case scenario for a baseball franchise is a bad team AND a bad farm.  So they chose to fix the farm first to create a solid base so that when they did fix the major league product it would be sustainable instead of buying a few high-priced veterans and killing the farm system to create a very short window (see Philadelphia Phillies).