Author Topic: K-Law's top 100 prospects and Nats's system ranking  (Read 5210 times)

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Offline NJ Ave

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um, only our top selections (since rizzo became GM) have become starters and right now (supposedly) the only decent prospects we have are Giolito (top selection) goodwin (sandwhich) and cole (4th rounder in the days when you could pay a fourth rounder $2 million). Rizzo is the master of great trades, but our farm system isn't exactly coughing up talent like St Louis or tampa

Ridiculous. It's somehow a BAD thing that Rizzo has kept all our top picks because his scouting department creates enough value further down the chain to get Ramos, Gio and Fister (about 10-12 WAR worth, all acquired with multiple years of team control) without giving up a SINGLE high draft pick?

Bogus.

There are multiple ways to fill your roster with talent. If Rizzo's strength is building up minor league reputations and then trading them away at their peaks for players with better long-term outlooks....GOOD FOR HIM.

If your point is that Rizzo is unsustainably hoodwinking other teams into taking our crappy players and giving us good players in return, I guess we'll see over time. But in the meantime, if Matt Skole has a huge year and then Rizzo trades him away for another good player, I'm still going to give Rizzo credit for drafting and developing Skole, regardless of whether Skole produces for the Nats himself, or if he's simply turned INTO a player who produces for the Nats.