Over the last 3 seasons, the Diamondbacks farm system has been slowly depleted. From ill-advised trades, prospect dumps for salary relief, and a unnaturally high graduation rate of prospects, the system lacks impact talent for the future. While the major league club still has some of those impact talents from a few seasons ago, the team lacks a lot of long-term assets, which I define as players with team control past the 2018 season. The only core players that fit in the post-2018 window are Zack Greinke, Paul Goldschmidt, Brandon Drury, Jake Lamb, Chris Owings, Nick Ahmed, and David Peralta.
Diamondbacks have a huge opportunity to add top-end talent to the farm in 2017
