In Keith Law’s annual (subscribers-only) ranking of every organization’s farm system, the ESPN.com analyst and former Toronto Blue Jays executive ranked the Dodgers’ system second in baseball.
The Dodgers were seventh in Law’s rankings a year ago. His explanation for the surge:
You can say that they bought this farm-system ranking, and you’d be right, and I don’t think they’d particularly care. However, that doesn’t do justice to the successful draft picks in 2013 and 2014 that line their top 10 around the various high-dollar Cuban signings (and that one Mexican lefty named Urias).