Quote Originally Posted by sirrealone View Post
The problem that the Tigers will face in going through an all-out rebuild is that they'll be competing with more teams than ever trying the same strategy.

In the past, you'd have a few top-tier teams, a lot of middle ground teams and a handful of teams in full out rebuild mode. Now it seems less teams are satisfied in the middle ground, so you have more teams than ever trying to tear it down and start over. The Tigers have already been bitten by this the past couple of seasons as the trade deadline is now a buyers market. So, they won't have as many good draft picks stockpiled, and they'll be in competition to accumulate prospects. It means that they can't afford to miss on the high draft picks.

A few years ago, Houston drafted Kevin Appel either first or second. He bombed, but because they had so many other picks, they were still just fine. In today's market, teams aren't going to accumulate the same number of picks, so that type of miss would have far greater impact on a team in rebuild mode. Let's just hope that the front office and the scouting department know what they're doing.
You can't trade draft picks in baseball [[other than compensatory ones) so how exactly is there competition to accumulate them?