ownership has been doing that style of teardown for the last decade or so, man. they're just not building anything; they have put almost nothing into the team. their front office makes poor personnel decisions including bad trades, overpaying singles hitters for "leadership" and not taking advantage of what they have to build talent.
the astros hired luhnow, the cubs epstein and his people...and there was a plan. "look, the team is ****. the farm is **** because we spent years trying to compete. i can get it back but it's going to be tough." there's a plan and everything. blueprints and all that ****.
the padres are building one of those **** huts with their own ****. maybe that's what's taking so long.
No they haven't. They went for it in 2015 with vets and it failed. Once it failed they started the current plan which is a carbon copy of the Cubs/Astros plan. They put in over $60M in international money. It's taking the same amount of time it took the Cubs/Astros to build. The Padres won't contend until 2020-2022
This is from yesterday.
Prospect Points
100 assigned for the No. 1 prospect, 99 for No. 2, etc. Here are the teams' Prospect Points.
TEAM | # | PP |
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Padres | 10 | 574 |
Braves | 8 | 429 |
White Sox | 6 | 397 |
Rays | 6 | 358 |
Astros | 6 | 307 |
Reds | 4 | 298 |
Blue Jays | 5 | 254 |
Twins | 3 | 221 |
A's | 3 | 204 |
Nationals | 3 | 199 |
Dodgers | 4 | 194 |
Tigers | 3 | 156 |
Pirates | 4 | 156 |
Phillies | 3 | 140 |
Angels | 2 | 125 |
Mariners | 3 | 113 |
Cardinals | 2 | 108 |
Rockies | 2 | 97 |
Indians | 2 | 94 |
Mets | 2 | 93 |
Giants | 2 | 88 |
D-backs | 3 | 87 |
Brewers | 1 | 81 |
Yankees | 2 | 79 |
Orioles | 3 | 78 |
Royals | 1 | 47 |
Rangers | 3 | 41 |
Red Sox | 1 | 22 |
Cubs | 2 | 8 |
Marlins | 1 | 2 |
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This year's Top 100 list is the first since 2015 to feature at least one player from all 30 teams. Some clubs are better represented than others, of course, though none can match the San Diego Padres' Top 100 prospect power.
The Padres are in elite company this year with an MLB Pipeline-record 10 Top 100 prospects.
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Padres land 10 on Top 100 Prospects list
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The Padres' farm system has been the toast of Minor League Baseball for nearly two years now. Believe it or not, that system might actually be getting better.
MLB Pipeline released its preseason ranking of the Top 100 prospects on Saturday night, and the list again skews heavily toward San Diego.
The Padres became the first team in the history of the rankings to place 10 prospects on the preseason list.
So much for not building anything. Our fan base said the same thing for the Cubs during the rebuild. Theo was washed up and didn't know what he was doing anymore, the team is losing like always, haven't won in 100+ years, tanking don't work blah blah blah. Then the farm system graduated. All teams fans with a long streak of not winning will say the same thing especially during the worst years of the rebuild. I don't believe we will ever win, management don't know what they are doing, all this talk of a top farm system is made up by people who do this for a living outside our team, we are doomed forever.