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craig

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Re: On The Farm
« Reply #10890 on: December 07, 2022, 09:01:42 pm »
Velocity on its own doesn’t make someone a top prospect, as some recent examples in our own system would bear out.  I assume there are concerns with command/control and/or secondaries or they would have protected him.

For sure true.  Still, I think you get about 40 guys on your AAA roster.  (Maybe not that many, I don't remember).  So between 40-man big-league and hypothetically 40-man AAA roster, you could hypothetically protect your most intriguing 80 players who are draft eligible.  If it's 80, you might not have 80 draft-eligible guys more compelling than a 97-mph lefty who's still only 20.