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Thanks to Jay at Mariner Minors for posting the link to the following item which led to the item after that...If you can follow that sentence you have an understanding into how my mind works....Scary, no?

This is from Beyond the Boxscore and it puts a monetary value on a Major League team's minor league system.

There is a post about the AL West. Here is the quick-and-dirty criteria used by Victor Wang, a writer at The Hardball Times:

• Divide prospects into different tiers using Baseball America's prospect rankings.
• Find what the average player in a talent pool produces during their cost-controlled years.
  
• Find how much money a team would need to spend to acquire the prospect's production on the free-agent market. For this, Victor applied Studes' work on WSAB and its direct relationship to a player's salary.
  
• Find the savings.
• For those outside of the Baseball America's 100, Victor applied the same process to prospects graded with B's and C's by John Sickels, only with C prospects he further divided them by age. The grades would be seen in any of his top 20 rankings for a given farm system.

Okay? Okay.



Here is the post on the NL Central.

For those who don't want to click that link...Here is a table for you:

Write up...Check that...Pie Chart on the Brewers:

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