Royals front office needs to define pitching development
Royals fans complain about the team's poor pitching development. JJ Picollo points to 2018 draft class graduates as proof of their success. But the 2018 class had a collective ERA above 5.00. A good development system takes a guy with a back-end starter profile and squeezes out a mid-rotation starter. It takes long reliever profile with high-leverage inning guy and makes him a high reliever. The theory is that a good system is based on the 70th or so projected percentile outcome for each pitcher and turns it into the 50th percentile projection.
