How is it the Guardians continue to keep churning out good pitching, while the Royals continue to draft many pitchers but find most to be duds. Is it because of lack of seasoning? Bubic went from A ball to the majors. Lynch went from A ball to AAA ball, where he was hammered, to the majors. Heasley went from A ball to AA (pitched well) to the majors. It seems a familiar theme. It seems the Royals have no other choice as their minor league rosters are full of pitching flops. What is it the Guardians do that the Royals don't? It is a good question the front office should take a look at it.
What I take away from - may not be the right time - is that the Royals do not believe they have or have identified their redundancy and talent level without giving the new coaching and development staff a chance. Basically let the new guys tell us who they believe are part of the future and go from there.
If they thought BWJ was a SS going forward they would have overlap with Mikael Garcia and could use Garcia in a trade package. Maybe they are convinced our future outfield is Melendez in RF, Waters in CF, and Pratto in LF. If they were convinced neither Pratto or Melendez is a OF then maybe one of them would be a trade piece. Same with the pitchers which is where I think the majority of free agent spending would take place. Get someone from the outside to see if they can fix Bubic, Kowar, Lynch, Singer, Hernandez, Staumont, Heasley, Brentz, at the MLB level and our minor leaguers that struggled this season - read Alec Marsh.
Fix our current players, if they can be fixed, and build from there. One year from today if we aren't making big moves to fill the discovered holes, I will be disappointed.
The last paragraph made me feel better - did not realize the Sox and tigers spent so much to be so bad.
I'll be very unsurprised when the Royals are aggressive in the trade market and middle tier of free agency anyway. Nice try, JJ.
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How is it the Guardians continue to keep churning out good pitching, while the Royals continue to draft many pitchers but find most to be duds. Is it because of lack of seasoning? Bubic went from A ball to the majors. Lynch went from A ball to AAA ball, where he was hammered, to the majors. Heasley went from A ball to AA (pitched well) to the majors. It seems a familiar theme. It seems the Royals have no other choice as their minor league rosters are full of pitching flops. What is it the Guardians do that the Royals don't? It is a good question the front office should take a look at it.
What I take away from - may not be the right time - is that the Royals do not believe they have or have identified their redundancy and talent level without giving the new coaching and development staff a chance. Basically let the new guys tell us who they believe are part of the future and go from there.
If they thought BWJ was a SS going forward they would have overlap with Mikael Garcia and could use Garcia in a trade package. Maybe they are convinced our future outfield is Melendez in RF, Waters in CF, and Pratto in LF. If they were convinced neither Pratto or Melendez is a OF then maybe one of them would be a trade piece. Same with the pitchers which is where I think the majority of free agent spending would take place. Get someone from the outside to see if they can fix Bubic, Kowar, Lynch, Singer, Hernandez, Staumont, Heasley, Brentz, at the MLB level and our minor leaguers that struggled this season - read Alec Marsh.
Fix our current players, if they can be fixed, and build from there. One year from today if we aren't making big moves to fill the discovered holes, I will be disappointed.