I Propose a Trade

[Cdawg]

What about the talent that is already here as opposed to the talent coming in? Of the 13 90 peaked 1B's half of them are drafted into the league, and the majority of those guys come from either '10 or '14. From overalls 70-89 only about....5 or 6 are going to make it that far and maybe 1 or 2 in the next 3-4 years. And it seems that way for all the positions(didn't get much into the pitchers but all the fielding). A lot of the top 40-80 players overall aren't going to peak in the 90's, most in the mid 80's.
Though I will say the number of catchers w/ the ability to hit over .300 and hit 30+ HR is kinda ludicrous.(contact 88 and power 85 min is my eyes). I'd start w/ seeing which positions truly have an abundance of over talented stars(2B and CF at a glance of overalls and peaks seems to be ok.) and seeing if I can't lower that by a little bit. Truly talented players aren't supposed to be so abundant and I'd go position by position and ask "how many of these guys are talented as opposed to how many are supposed to be." I can only think of 4-6 talented 2B's and the rest are some type of role player.(Cano, Pedroia, Prado, Utley)

I don't like the idea of an immediate jump from excellent farm to average. maybe do it over 3 seasons(partly b/c of my rebuilding effort but lower it this off season to very good, and keep it there next off season and the season after that drop it to average). That will detour a lot of that talent that is draft this year and last.
Let the talent that is already here and aging slowly leak out and I'd assume by the end of the 3 years for the farm, quite a few of those players will be gone.