It’s starting to be the time of the year when evaluators are looking at more than individual players—when performances have gained a large enough sample that it makes some sense to rank farm systems as a whole. For the Mariners, it’s a chance check progress.
To do that, let’s swing by Fangraphs. The site recently updated what they call THE BOARD to include, beyond individual prospect rankings, farm system rankings.
The Mariners check in with the eighth-best farm system in all of baseball. There’s still room to keep climbing, and the players to make it happen, but it’s worth acknowledging progress—at the end of the season last year, the Mariners ranked 30th out of 30.