White Sox And Cubs' Systems Have Produced Similar Big League Talent
CHICAGO (WSCR) The MLB Draft of this past week is sure to produce some of the league's future superstars. Some of the players chosen will continue on into college, while others will start their professional careers as minor league players.
Those headed to the minors will become just another player in team's expansive farm systems. The strength of those farm systems depends on a lot, and don't always correlate to success at the major league level.
"When we're doing the farm system rankings, it's not always fair because it's what's in the farm system at that specific moment," Jim Callis, of Baseball America, said on the Danny Mac Show. "Because if you've had guys get to the big leagues quick or you've traded them away, you know, it doesn't give you the he same read.
"For instance, coming into this year, we ranked the White Sox's farm system as the 27th best in baseball, and we ranked the Cubs the 16th. We actually ranked the Cubs at No. 8 before they made the trade for Matt Garza and sent away a lot of their prospects...But we also did kind of a companion piece: what they've produced over the last three years. And there you see a different story, you know. We actually had the White Sox at 16, which is the middle of the pack. I mean, they've traded Chris Carter, Gio Gonzalez, Daniel Hudson, Clayton Richard, you know, etc. etc. So they've gotten production in that regard.
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"We had the Cubs 13th, over the last three years in terms of what they've produced that's no longer in the farm system. You know, guys in the Matt Garza trade, you know, Starlin Castro has obviously come to the big leagues. So, in terms of what they've produced over the last three years, they're very close. In terms of what's still in the system, the Cubs have a clear advantage over the White Sox."
