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Originally Posted by Déjà Bru
Good article, but a bit subjective. But hey, that's the nature of the subject and this is as good a set of guidelines as any I have seen.
My concern is, say you use PCM's to maintain a foreign league at AAA or AA-level. Do any of those players eventually make it to MLB and excel? A handful is realistic but none at all is not. This is what always bothered me about trying to tinker with international league talent levels.
EDIT: Wow, he kind of dumped on Cuba, ranking it behind the Atlantic League (and my home-town Ducks)! I'm not so sure about that one.
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I don't entirely agree with those rankings, in fact I discussed them somewhere around here them a while ago. They underrate Korea and overrate the Euro leagues a bit but still, overall they aren't far off. Pretty good in general though there are also some factual errors in the article. f.e. Korea doesn't feed into the *** at all really, there are maybe 2 Korean players in the *** and Taiwan barely feeds the *** any more than that, with maybe 10 players or so.
As for Cuba, it's definitely below the Atlantic League. Probably below the American Association as well.
Cuba's lost so much top talent in recent years and the young guys coming into the league haven't adequately replaced the lost talent. Cuba still has better top end guys than say the Atlantic League does, but it's bench guys and even some starter types are way below American pro caliber. They're more like American HS type players honestly. A lot of 16-17 year olds and a few 40 year olds as well.