Sometimes talent comes in bunches. While it’s not ideal for starting-caliber players to be stowed away, it’s a relatively common problem in MLB.
Succeeding in MLB is all about accumulating talent throughout your organization. Whether it be at the major league level or in the lower levels of the minors. However, sometimes all that talent can overlap, and players that are deserving are unable to carve out a role.
There’s something to the strategy of just getting the best available players and working it out later. Normally, there are position changes or trades that occur, which help to solve these issues of logjams.
Throughout MLB, there are teams still attempting to figure out that process, for this season, and for the years ahead. This list will look at the most completed quandaries that clubs will have to face for 2017 and beyond.
It should be noted that starting rotations or bullpens usually don’t suffer from this problem because of the sheer number that are needed throughout a regular season. But that doesn’t mean that some teams don’t have decisions to make (spoiler alert).
Overall, the greater the amount of talent would affect the organization, the higher they are in the rankings. So while this season may seem a little more cut and dry for some, it’s their future prospects that contribute to the potential logjam.
Now with all of the semantics out of the way, let’s dive into which teams have done too good of a job of accumulating starting-caliber players.