4 Twins Prospects Show How the MLB Draft Builds a Pitching Pipeline

[Linus]

12 hours ago, Bill Tanner said:

To be fair, you have to credit the FO either for the pitchers they drafted, developed and traded who are now big leaguers (Faucher, Sawyer Gibson-Long, Legumina, Povich), or those they traded for and developed into big leaguers (Ryan, SWR, Duran, Alcala).  You also failed to identify Sands, Varland, Winder and Funderburk.  The FO has 7, not 8 drafts.  And when you consider the jury is still out on the 2020-2023 draft classes, I think what they've done with these pitchers from the 2017-2019 classes is not nearly as bad as you make it out to be.  Over, Ryan, SWR and Varland could make up 4/5 of a rotation alone.

I agree about pitching used in trades. The rest of it no. The article is about drafting and developing pitching not trading for it. And if you folks are including Winder Funderburk and Varland then you are really stretching it. They are minor leaguers who have not proven to be major leaguers.