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Is the Padres farm system really that bad? Worst in baseball? How does a lowish revenue team let their player development fall so far? At least they seem to recognize it and have been taking steps to remedy the situation.

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Organization Ratings

It’s a straightforward application of the individual player rankings to evaluate the relative strength of different farm systems. Here’s what we get by summing the ratings within each organization for all “true” (pre-MLB) prospects with a combined PECOTA peak score of 100 or higher.

Best Farm Systems

1. Dodgers 2820.0
2. Indians 2608.7
3. Angels 2280.6
4. Marlins 2097.5
5. Brewers 2008.7
6. Twins 1970.7
7. Diamondbacks 1873.0
8. Devil Rays 1747.5
9. Tigers 1674.7
10. Pirates 1609.8
11. Yankees 1580.7
12. Rockies 1423.2
13. A’s 1407.4
14. Giants 1399.2
15. Braves 1365.2
16. Red Sox 1338.7
17. Royals 1331.7
18. Rangers 1321.6
19. Mets 1225.2
20. Mariners 1223.9
21. Phillies 1212.6
22. Nationals 1189.6
23. Orioles 1180.6
24. Cardinals 1152.7
25. Cubs 1024.1
26. Blue Jays 954.6
27. Astros 784.6
28. Padres 734.3
29. White Sox 680.3
30. Reds 653.3

These numbers are really quite consistent with the BA organizational talent ratings, and the rest of the expert consensus on the depth of different systems. A lot of the noise cancels out when you’re dealing with entire systems, rather than individual prospects; PECOTA might like Andy LaRoche a bit less than BA and Joel Guzman a bit more, but either way it recognizes that the Dodgers are loaded. One exception is that pitching-rich organizations like the Red Sox and Cubs do notably poorer by PECOTA’s reckoning.

We can also look at the 24-and-under talent within each organization, without regard to prospect status. For a number of reasons, this is probably the fairer way to do things.

Best 24-and-Under Talent

1. Devil Rays 3893.2
2. Marlins 3601.1
3. Dodgers 3554.5
4. Angels 3503.3
5. Braves 3362.5
6. Mariners 3250.7
7. Indians 3173.7
8. Brewers 3100.2
9. Twins 3098.8
10. Royals 2979.1
11. Diamondbacks 2606.1
12. Mets 2582.5
13. Tigers 2202.6
14. A’s 2074.4
15. Red Sox 1985.6
16. Pirates 1938.7
17. Cubs 1857.9
18. Yankees 1857.7
19. Rangers 1739.0
20. Reds 1734.9
21. Blue Jays 1695.1
22. Phillies 1610.6
23. Orioles 1530.9
24. Cardinals 1518.9
25. Nationals 1512.6
26. Giants 1405.5
27. Rockies 1360.2
28. White Sox 1334.5
29. Astros 1322.6
30. Padres 914.0

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Finally, we can disregard the age requirement entirely, to get a sense for present medium-to-long-term organizational health.

Overall Talent Stock

1. A’s 8015.3
2. Dodgers 7609.6
3. Angels 7515.5
4. Indians 7488.5
5. Twins 7275.6
6. Yankees 7194.5
7. Braves 7047.1
8. Cardinals 7029.9
9. Red Sox 6904.1
10. Brewers 6670.8
11. Devil Rays 6660.4
12. Mets 6554.8
13. Pirates 6544.0
14. Phillies 6543.5
15. Blue Jays 6525.1
16. Mariners 6502.5
17. Cubs 6420.5
18. Diamondbacks 6390.0
19. Rangers 6378.9
20. Tigers 6322.0
21. Reds 5969.9
22. Rockies 5785.6
23. Royals 5726.6
24. Orioles 5623.3
25. Astros 5475.3
26. Marlins 5302.3
27. White Sox 5278.6
28. Giants 4873.8
29. Nationals 4843.7
30. Padres 4581.1

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1. Tagg Bozied, etc …

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2. Cesar Carillo …

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3. WBC …

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A fun trip … the 15-10 loss to Rangers yesterday (Friday) was not fun … it was a cold/windy day … LOTS of errors … Leone show’d his rough side booting a couple of nearly-routine balls … got to see Walter mash a ball on the RCF berm … Matt Bush didn’t show anything with bat or glove … but then again, neither did Mike Cameron … Ian Kinsler can mash … and I saw why the Rangers didn’t need Adrian Gonzalez, Jason Botts is a STUD (http://www.baseballprospectus.com/pecota/bottsja01.php) … Sledge look’d good hitting the ball, he smoked one into the RF corner that’d be a triple when his legs get healthy (he clearly wasn’t running 100%) …

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