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Originally Posted by bedir than average
I'm curious, but why would one choose 2010 as the date to judge?
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I don't know if it is judging by that date, so much as it is just considering who will be at the forefront of these positions in the next few seasons. Who is going to breakout as impact players in the near future, and who is going to reach their peak to dominate the next few seasons of baseball. Not just who will be best today for this seasons only (since the focus is development and improving down the road), and not who will be best 7 years from now in the distant future that is too far to see, but who will be strong in the coming few years with talent on the brink of making an impact within the near future.
I mention the year 2010 specifically sometimes when looking at a team because it is a convenient target to look at across the sport since Baseball America puts together a list of every team's projected 2010 lineup.
Plus this is about evaluating the Rockies within their own strategic plan to be great in a few seasons from now. They don't expect to win the World Series this year. They think they can be .500 at least and compete, but they truly think they can be a special group of young players that can really do some great things down the line in the not-to-distant future. This is trying to look at what that future could look like and see if they stack up.
Certainly things will change (as they do year from year), but whether a top pitching prospect stays with his current organization or not doesn't really matter. That organization still produced a better player than us, and would have reaped the rewards of that. We need to be better than most organizations at producing players, whether or not these players mentioned move to different teams or not. We are evaluating our development abilities verus other standards in the game. Whether a future ace stays with the A's or is traded to the Yankees's, he still would represent a better product in the game than we have and would be a measuring stick for the kind of player we need to produce (no matter his uniform changes).