Baseball Musings
Baseball Musings
October 11, 2007
Sustainability

Rox Girl makes an important point about the Rockies ability to sustain this team long term (emphasis added):

The question of sustainability is important and it will be interesting to find out if the Rockies approach to this is clever or just misguided. You can see from recent drafts how they take players just a couple of skills away from being considered big time talents -yet because of these handicaps are overlooked by other teams and draft observers- and then stick them into the development pipeline to try and nurture that talent by their age 25 season, in some cases, Darren Clarke for instance, even later. The team has a much slower clock for its prospects than most, which allows them to get peak performance at a very low financial cost when they do succeed. In some cases, like Clint Barmes for instance, the shelf life can be pretty short for these guys once they get here.

What one hopes happens is that the infusion of fans and money that comes with winning allows that process to shift. The teams can afford to sign better amateur players, and even the star free agent or two. The Rockies primed the pump. The next step is to keep the talent flowing.


Posted by David Pinto at 12:00 PM | Team Evaluation | TrackBack (0)
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The bigger question is if the Rox can keep Holliday and Tulo. Those two are on track for monster paydays in the years ahead.

Posted by: DenverGregg at October 12, 2007 07:24 AM
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