The Debate Part One

I've hatched an idea Cup half-full Jordan will argue against cup-half empty Jordan on various topics realted to the O's and you detremine the winner.

THE FARM SYSTEM

Full Jordan: The O's have one of the best farm systems in all of the majors, Brandon Synder, Jake Arrieta, Brain Matsuz, and Chris Tillman, Baseball America says the O's have on the best farm systems in the majors.

Empty Jordan: They were saying that a couple years ago about Hayden Penn, Liz, and Daniel Cabrera and none of them are of any use in the bigs any more. How do we know that's not going to happend with Arrieta, Matsuz and Tillman?

FJ: We don't. However that was an Orioles team that didn't have Andy McPhail monitoring everything, this team does Andy McPhail watching and making sure that when the get called up they are fully prepared for the majors. Take Brad Bergesun. He was called up and has made an immediate impact on team.

EJ: Just because you have a better GM doesn't mean that your prospects will magically be better, some people just can't handle the pressure of being in bigs, they can't adjust players that are better, faster, and stronger.

FJ: The thing is the GM does in a way make the prospects better by hiring a good coaching staff and making sure that players seem to be ready to handle the guys that are better ,faster and stronger. Our previous GM's weren't hiring good coaches and were rushing the kids up to the majors.

EJ: The key word is seem to be ready, you can't judge how Minor Leaguers will do in the majors until you put them up there. You cant gurantee anything.

FJ: This completly true. You can't gurantee anything. But the compontents are there for a great ballplayers.

And that's the end of the first debate