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Trevor Crowe was fine.
Thats the issue, they can find players that are AAAA types, but they haven't found any first round OFs that stick in the pros lately either cause of injuries or just not enough talent. They currently only have 3 guys in the OF on the 40 man who they drafted, Allen, Naquin and Zimmer.
Going back through the drafts recently and guys who have seen MLB time:
12-Naquin and Wendle
13- Frazier, Crockett, Pannone, Plutko, and Heller
14- Zimmer, Justus Sheffield, Allen, (Though 5-6 guys who may see/will be at least AAAA style players)
This is why the transition this season to a new team is going so-so since they didnt on hit enough via the draft 5ish years prior.
Everyone loves the lower levels right now and believe we will have a very good organization in 2022 type of thing, but we are still strong enough to win now as well so we could easily trade and upgrade some, but as a small market team we have to be careful doing that. Also small market teams have to usually hit on a better % of their draft picks to stay in contention year in and year. Reason why we did so bad before we got Francona was the fact from 2000-2007 we didn't hit on almost anyone within the first 3 rounds, which created the issue of finding people from 2005-2012. 5 years is slightly a generic time, but usually you know by then what you got in your draft.