Since the last time I linked you to the latest rankings, a few more teams that have affiliates in the Midwest League have been posted over at www.baseballamerica.com. Click on the team names below to see who BA considers the top prospects in each organization (and see some familiar names in the process).
Cardinals (Quad Cities River Bandits)
Padres (Fort Wayne TinCaps)
Dodgers (Great Lakes Loons)
The Diamondbacks are coming up on Wednesday, and I'll of course have a lot more information on that when it happens.
Showing posts with label San Diego Padres. Show all posts
Showing posts with label San Diego Padres. Show all posts
Monday, December 7, 2009
Tuesday, October 27, 2009
Baseball America, Jarrod Parker, and the Padres
No sooner had I finished the last post about the Padres changes, that I went to www.baseballamerica.com and read this article about the Padres situation and former Silver Hawks pitcher Jarrod Parker.
The first question asks about how far Parker would drop in the prospect rankings with Tommy John surgery scheduled for this week (not very far, according to BA).
The second question addresses the Padres situation, and what Hoyer takes over. Baseball America is not as kind to the Padres farm system as I was in the previous post. While I agree with BA that the major league team stinks, and there's not a ton of talent in the upper levels of the minors, I think they are selling the low level talent short. They admit that they were off when they ranked the Padres farm system 29th of the 30 teams, but they don't seem to give a lot of credit to the young players who had great seasons at the A-level this season.
Click the link above and read it all.
The first question asks about how far Parker would drop in the prospect rankings with Tommy John surgery scheduled for this week (not very far, according to BA).
The second question addresses the Padres situation, and what Hoyer takes over. Baseball America is not as kind to the Padres farm system as I was in the previous post. While I agree with BA that the major league team stinks, and there's not a ton of talent in the upper levels of the minors, I think they are selling the low level talent short. They admit that they were off when they ranked the Padres farm system 29th of the 30 teams, but they don't seem to give a lot of credit to the young players who had great seasons at the A-level this season.
Click the link above and read it all.
Change with the Padres
So the Padres have a new GM, and thus, they are making a change in their player development director as well.
Jed Hoyer is the new GM, replacing the recently fired Kevin Towers. As soon as Hoyer was announced as GM, Grady Fuson was relieved of his duties as VP of Player Development.
Why should you care?
It's when things like this happen that remind everyone just how little the low levels of the minors ultimately mean to the big league club. We all remember the Fort Wayne TinCaps success this season, right? 102 wins is hard to forget. It was largely Towers and his staff that drafted that great crop of players, and Fuson and his staff that developed that great group of players. And while I'm sure the Padres are happy that they've won at the low-A level in 2009, it's not enough to save the jobs of the top two guys in terms of player personnel.
I don't know whether Towers and Fuson deserved to be fired or not. That's not for me to decide. All I know is that Hoyer is taking over a bad major league team, but has a great crop of prospects -- and that's exactly what every GM in MLB wants.
We'll wait for the fall out and see if the TinCaps staff get to keep their jobs with a new Player Development regime in place.
Jed Hoyer is the new GM, replacing the recently fired Kevin Towers. As soon as Hoyer was announced as GM, Grady Fuson was relieved of his duties as VP of Player Development.
Why should you care?
It's when things like this happen that remind everyone just how little the low levels of the minors ultimately mean to the big league club. We all remember the Fort Wayne TinCaps success this season, right? 102 wins is hard to forget. It was largely Towers and his staff that drafted that great crop of players, and Fuson and his staff that developed that great group of players. And while I'm sure the Padres are happy that they've won at the low-A level in 2009, it's not enough to save the jobs of the top two guys in terms of player personnel.
I don't know whether Towers and Fuson deserved to be fired or not. That's not for me to decide. All I know is that Hoyer is taking over a bad major league team, but has a great crop of prospects -- and that's exactly what every GM in MLB wants.
We'll wait for the fall out and see if the TinCaps staff get to keep their jobs with a new Player Development regime in place.
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