The highest-ranked prospects in Royals history
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Royals fans are getting a taste of the future with Brady Singer and Kris Bubic reaching the big leagues and Daniel Lynch and Kyle Isbel reaching the big leagues already this year. The most anticipated debut will by Bobby Witt, Jr. which could possibly come this summer.
Lynch, who made his MLB debut this week, was ranked #21 by Baseball America, the highest rankings for a Royals pitching prospect in that publication in over a decade. Baseball America is the industry leader in evaluating prospects, and they have ranked the top 100 prospects in the game every year since 1988. I wanted to take a look back and see how Lynch and Witt stack up against some of the other highest-ranked prospects in club history.
A look back at old Royals programs
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I’ve been a baseball fan for as long as I can remember. Over the years I’ve kept just about every program of every game I’ve ever attended. For a long time, I wondered why, but now, writing for Royals Review and with the advent of Baseballrefernce.com, it’s been a fun walk down memory lane to revisit some of those old games.
The first program in my collection is from the 1966 Kansas City Athletics. It wasn’t even a game I attended. Some of my dad’s friends went to the game and brought back the Athletics 1966 yearbook for me. The front cover is long gone but featured prominently on page two is Charlie O. Finley and his family. No matter what the occasion, Charlie wanted everyone to know that he was the man.
“Fools, as it has long been said, are indeed separated, soon or eventually, from their money. So, alas, are those who, responding to a general mood of optimism, are captured by a sense of their own financial acumen. Thus it has been for centuries; thus in the long future it will also be.”
― John Kenneth Galbraith, A Short History of Financial Euphoria
The signs of an epic bubble of historic proportions are everywhere. The stock market is a bubble, with valuations exceeding 2001. Margin debt is at all-time highs. The bond market is a bubble, with the Fed artificially suppressing rates and pumping trillions of QE into Wall Street. Housing is experiencing another bubble, with prices now far exceeding the 2005 peak. Bitcoin and the rest of the crypto-currencies are a bubble, being driven by the excess liquidity sloshing around the system. A joke crypto currency like Dogecoin soars into the stratosphere because money has no meaning anymore.
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Jim Quinn James Quinn has held financial positions with a retailer, homebuilder and university in his 30 year career. Those positions included treasurer, controller, and head of strategic planning. He earned a BS in accounting from Drexel University and an MBA from Villanova University. He is a certified public accountant and a certified cash manager.
“Fools, as it has long been said, are indeed separated, soon or eventually, from their money. So, alas, are those who, responding to a general mood of optimism, are captured by a sense of their own financial acumen. Thus it has been for centuries; thus in the long future it will also be.”
“Fools, as it has long been said, are indeed separated, soon or eventually, from their money. So, alas, are those who, responding to a general mood of optimism, are captured by a sense of their own financial acumen. Thus it has been for centuries; thus in the long future it will also be.”
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The signs of an epic bubble of historic proportions are everywhere.
The stock market is a bubble, with valuations exceeding 2001. Margin debt is at all-time highs. The bond market is a bubble, with the Fed artificially suppressing rates and pumping trillions of QE into Wall Street. Housing is experiencing another bubble, with prices now far exceeding the 2005 peak. Bitcoin and the rest of the crypto-currencies are a bubble, being driven by the excess liquidity sloshing around the system.