Atlanta and Houston Surprised me.
Interesting that someone posted here about the strength of the AL West the other day when this whole list is populated with their teams. Love seeing Houston there, especially with their present position int he standings.
Ranking the top-five and bottom-five farm systems in MLB this year (msn.com)
Not surprised to see Pitt and Baltimore where they are. At least they are drafting well out of their horrible positions. Little surprised to see Washington that high. Did they get picks for some recent trades?
The Angels' system has been bad forever. Yesterday's roster moves illustrate just how empty it is.
They DL'd Drury and Rengifo. To replace them, they (1) traded for a scrap-heap middle infielder (Guillorme) and (2) brought up their #3 prospect, another middle infielder, who's hitting .091 at AA. According to the MLB rating system, their top two prospects project to "average major leaguer." #3 projects to below average. The Angels must have a Platinum VIP card at the used player scrap yard, given all the business they do there.
I don't know what it is, but over the past 15 years they've shown they can neither identify talent nor develop it in the minors. They haven't figured out that the only two ways to acquire players are money and other players. They have no one on the 40-man who has enough trade value to return players you could use to build a team. Arte Moreno can't even adopt the Dodgers model, because with the talent in-house he'd have to sign a half dozen $400 million free agents just to field a contender.
White Sox and A’s are officially dead for five years.
Link not working. Also tried to google msn and just got specific teams only. Here’s a link from MLB. Do they match somewhat?