A little more than a year ago the Rays the MLB-Handelsdeadline of 2024 MLB treated as an opportunity to blow up most of the team, All-Stars and Veterans to trade-Isaac Paredes, Randy Arozarena, Zach Eflin, Aaron Civale Glassnow, and Meer-na.
Op het moment dat de stralen goed uit de playoff -stelling waren en de bewegingen met een oog op de toekomst maakten, in de verwachting van verworven talenten – beide veteranen (Inf/van Christopher Morel, van Dylan Carlson, RHP Hunter Bigge) en prospects (RHP Dylan Lesko, RHP Brody Hopkins, van Aidan Smith) – om het stadium van het team te bepalen voor de toekomst van The team.
The afternoon after trading Randy Arozarena to the Mariners President of baseball operations, Erik Neander said, said, “I have the responsibility to try to take this team to a World Series,” Emphasizing the strategy of the Front Office was built around it as quickly as possible to return to the Play -OFF -Set:
“We don’t want 2024 2014, don’t want 2029 2019,” said Neander. “I don’t want to go for five years without a Playoff performance, so these decisions have been made to ensure that we are not falling off and it doesn’t take us five years to find our way back.”
[mlb.com]
That is why many who follow the rays closely were quickly to say that 2024 was not a fire. The team held on to Yandy Diaz and Brandon Lowe, two of the most productive players in team history, and had locked and loaded a lot of young talent in 3B Junior Caminero, by Josh Lowe and 1b Jonathan Aranda, the return for Glasnow in RHP Ryan Pepiot and from Jonny Delucaan and wounded players McClanahsen.
The goal was simple: the wave of talent until 2025 and catch an even larger wave in 2026 with an agricultural system that has now been supplemented with an absurd amount of depth.
On the head side of the Major League that clearly did not come true. Among the players mentioned above, Diaz and B. Lowe contributed their bit, and newly beaten All-Stars Caminero and Aranda exceeded expectations. But the team has only received that so far.
At the Handelsdeadline of 2025 the team moved the sun loungers around, exchanged two catchers and two starting pitchers through deals, but without upgrading the Abysmal Outfield that has suffered poor performance in all three positions. A few more injuries later (B. Lowe had 35 record performances in July, Aranda Brak his wrist on August 1) and the Playoff opportunities of the team decreased from 81.4% at the end of June to only 2.1% from today, August 13.
All the pain that the fans had to face when the stars disappeared was certain that they would be claimed by the incoming talent if the Major League side could not be delivered.
Baseball America has just reassessed the farm systems in baseball and dropped the rays until 20th, despite the enormous influx of extra talent in the past two seasons through trade, with alone An Player considered a top 100 prospect (SS Carson Williams, 75 General), Writing:
System overview: This is a year to forget, because injuries and ineffectiveness have affected countless hit prospects.
System strengths: Competition. The difference between prospect no. 5 and no. 25 in the Rays system is currently relatively tiny. Despite the lack of top 100 prospects, few teams have just as many potential large Leaguers as Tampa Bay. They just need some to appear as an elite views instead of possible large Leaguers.
System weaknesses: Production at the highest level. This would be the year that Xavier Isaac, Tre ‘Morgan, Carson Williams and Brayden Taylor all insisted on big league promotions. Instead, all four more herbs seem to need that can extend until 2026.
[Baseball America]
There is much to say about the diversification of risk due to quantity, but for the broader blogosphere of the prospect to suddenly pedal back from the quality of the Rays system is amazing.
In the season, the Rays Farm system number 2 was general at MLB pipeline and no. 1 halfway through the year in 2024. At Baseball America, the system ranked in 6th place of the preseason and 7th the year before.
For years the Rays have sold fans on the idea that losing stars today would mean to win bigger tomorrow. But if the product crumbles on the field and the farm loses shine, the future starts to look much less like a light at the end of the tunnel and more like an oncoming train. Quantity can only bring you so far without quality to anchor it.
If the crown jewel of the organization – the pipeline – can no longer be calculated to deliver an elitental talent, then the entire Rays model is under discussion. There is no great team on the field today, there is no better wings. The team does not even have a Major League stadium to play in.
Is it a problem that can solve money (and a new owner)?
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