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THE ROYALS TREATMENT

he lost 2020 minor league season wasn’t a loss for every player. The prospects highlighted in this piece developed even without traditional player development practices, i.e. games being played to hone skills. For this exercise, the metric weighted runs above average (wRAA) at was used to compare all players’ offensive production in 2019 versus 2021. That FanGraphs data for minor leaguers stretches back to 2006. Players were

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