If you are going to build and sustain a good baseball team, one thing that you need is lots of prospects. Good prospects are great to have, but it’s also good to just have lots of prospects, for one simple reason: Most prospects are going to run into the ceiling for their talent somewhere before they get to “good player for the next good MLB team.”
That’s a sad fact for anyone outside of the top tier of prospects. Odds are he won’t make it. The only question is what level he’s at when he bumps into that ceiling.