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Originally Posted by Prison Bitch
We keep grousing (fairly I might add) about player development and its exhausting watching guys who are universally loved by scouts flop up in KC. My theory is DM is too patient and lax with young players but that's just my theory. I'm looking for other ideas.
Watching Chisenhall blow by Moose is nauseating to me. In my 2011 BBAmerica handbook all three guys (Callis, Lingo, Manuel) had Moose higher. Lingo had hm #3 overall. Behind Harper and Trout. Moose had 20HR as a 23 year old his first full season then shit the bed. We have a problem whatever it is
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Agree that some of the issues with player development involve coddling the players too much and being too lax with them. Promotions come fairly easily.
Moustakas probably didn't REALLY earn his way out of Wilmington after his 2009 season there, but he then followed that up by hitting 36 bombs and posting a .999 OPS over AA and AAA the next year.
The coddling issues with him didn't really start until he was in the big leagues.
Hosmer is kind of the same story, although they had him repeat Wilmington after a disastrous debut there and he went off on that league.