Farm System

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One other point to support the 'it's different now' approach is that Cubs organization has placed more money and staff into revamping/building up the development side of the minor league system.  MacPhail - via Hendry - took similar approach but by the time Pie was going through the system - much it lagged behind other clubs. 

 

Hopefully, with additional staff, money, updated approach and patience, the Cubs will have better experience getting more out of the prospect pipeline.

Plus scouting and metrics have improved.

 

 

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He was seen as very "toolsy".  He was high in those rankings, but I still don't think he was every as highly regarded as some of this current crop.

Well, I think you can look back now and say he was overrated because people fell in love with the 5-tool player idea, but my point was just that he was as big of a deal when he started in the minors if not bigger than Baez is now.  I think the big difference now is we have multiple guys at once at the top of these lists, instead of 1.  But over the last several years I'd argue Patterson and Pryor were our two biggest or best regarded prospects by scouts.  Since Pie I guess Vitters comes to mind, but he never seemed to hit the Patterson or Pryor level of gushing by scouts.  It's certainly cool to look at the potential of multiple guys now, instead of one at time which seemed to be the norm for awhile. 

 

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-Funkster said it's nice that our current prospects are much more highly regarded than Pie or Patterson were.

-I showed evidence that Patterson was for a few years as highly or more highly regarded than Baez, our top guy, is now.

-Funk said he still thinks Baez is today more highly regarded than Patterson was then.

-I still disagree, but I do think what's better about our situation now is that instead of having one guy at the top of these lists of top prospects at a time (i.e. Patterson in the early 2000s), we have several now at the same time. Strength in numbers, one of them is bound to not be a bust. 

 

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You wrote Pryor.  His name is Prior.