Sound bites that are declarative, objective, and catchy have a way of sticking in our respective craws.
“Our farm system is now ranked in the Top 10 in MLB, up from being 28th going into 2020.”
The above quote was doled out by Owner Bob in his PR interview with Tommy Thrall just last week, and while it’s true that there are roughly thirteen-dozen places that do such rankings - and some do have the Reds as a fringe Top 10 organization - it’s also true that said interview ran on MLB.com. So, it creates an interesting paradox when MLB.