One thing I like to do throughout the season but before I write this is check the pulse of what others think about the Royals system. The top end talent is growing, and one person I talked to said that if they hadn\u2019t promoted Jac Caglianone, we\u2019d be talking about the system very differently, which I find kind of interesting. Is one player that big of a difference? Maybe, I guess. But I talked with people from three different teams. One said they have the Royals as a top-12 system. One said they\u2019re probably around 15. And another had them at 21 in their internal rankings but said that they believed it could jump to six or seven by midseason.<\/p>\n
Nobody will ever admit it because it\u2019s subconscious, but I do believe that certain teams get bumps for their prospects and certain teams get pushed down. The Royals have a reputation of a bad system, so their prospects have to overcome a natural bias, in my opinion. And that\u2019s okay. Rankings don\u2019t matter. Production matters. But I do think that as they continue to do things the right way, we\u2019ll see that bias shift back in their favor as it was 15 years ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One thing I like to do throughout the season but before I write this is check the pulse…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":502784,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2387],"tags":[5,936,2123,55,2596,2595,4,252,38557],"class_list":{"0":"post-502783","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-kansas-city-royals","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-kansas","10":"tag-kansas-city","11":"tag-kansas-city-royals","12":"tag-kansascity","13":"tag-kansascityroyals","14":"tag-mlb","15":"tag-royals","16":"tag-royals-rumblings"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/115826070902895216","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502783","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=502783"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502783\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/502784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=502783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=502783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=502783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}