Email a copy of 'Royals Prospect Kyle Zimmer To Undergo Thoracic Outlet Surgery' to a friend
Loading ...
By Jeff Todd | at
Email a copy of 'Royals Prospect Kyle Zimmer To Undergo Thoracic Outlet Surgery' to a friend
MLB Trade Rumors is not affiliated with Major League Baseball, MLB or MLB.com
hide arrows scroll to top
Mark.cox.us
This guy has been a waste from Day 1. Short of a miracle I don’t see him contributing at the major league level.
More track record the organization’s inability to develop young pitching.
JT19
I don’t know much about what his numbers look like, but the numbers listed above don’t say the organization can’t develop pitchers. There’s a difference between not being able to develop prospects and a prospect getting constantly injured. Guys like Justin Smoak, Dustin Ackley (citing Mariners’ prospects since I’m a Mariners’ fan) didn’t develop properly. Someone like Danny Hultzen, on the other hand, got injured too often to actually live up to his potential.
sngehl01
I remember when they had Odorizzi, Danny Duffy, John Lamb, Mike Montgomery, Aaron Crow, Jeremy Jeffress, and Venture wasn’t even a top 10 prospect at that time (he may have been on some lists) and then drafted Zimmer right on top of it. Plus Moustakas, Salvador Perez, Hosmer, Gordon as hitters… and it’s just unreal how virtually none of these have turned out. Some real fine major leaguers, for sure but this team had one of the best farm systems we had seen around 2010-2012, just churning out quality top prospects, who just didn’t translate into MLB numbers.
matthew45
and they still went to two World Series!
unsaturatedmatz
Every single hitter you just listed has made an all star team… I think the Royals are just fine with how it worked out (see World Series, 2015). I agree on the pitchers, but they did ship a bunch of them out.