And if he becomes a very good player, he very likely would not have a long career with the Royals.

and they can be much more indicative

If you have a defensive catcher with minimal bat… That is better than a hitting catcher with a minimal catching ability/arm for a team. They are moving him to the OF for a reason, and it isnt because we are SO GOOD at catcher. If they dont think he can be average behind the plate then I am good with that. If they are moving him so he can be with the MLB team faster then I disagree with the move.
If he is average in the OF with a great corner OF bat, then it is worth it to have him in the game 98%of the games compared to the 80% he would if he was catching. Considering the log jam at 1st we are already going to be solid at DH as well.
It does however make our CF have to have great range with a huge arm.

and Alex charged a ball down the line, came up throwing to almost gun a guy down scoring from second. The throw was a screamer right on point and just reiterated my frustration in the Royals not moving him to right. I know this isn’t the place necessarily, but the fact that they didn’t think he could pick up RF well enough to fully utilize a third baseman’s arm still gets me riled up.

I think we’re quite thin at catcher. Of course most organizations are.

where do you think that he will start the year? Even if he goes back to Wilmington, the only way he stays there is if he doesn’t hit, so he will get to AA this year. Then next year he will probably start out in Omaha, and sometime in the summer of 2012 I suspect we will see him patrolling RF in the big leagues.

Because he was stuggling so much at it on a team that from all accounts has a guy that is MLB ready defensively at the position, but just needs to work on his offense. It would have to be a little disheartening to give up a bunch of passed balls every time you play in the field, and when you watch another guy who almost your same age go out and do well defensively.

This assumes no bumps in the road, setbacks, failures to progress, significant injuries or significant difficulty in transitioning to the outfield, correct? So essentially if all goes well, he’ll be MLB-ready in 2012.

No one thought Heyward would be ready when he was….no one thought Trout would advance as he has….Myers is that kind of talent…I have no doubt he can play OF and he has been preparing for this for awhile…He was paying OF in instructs…did not catch at all

and he has played there b4…we are taking about professional athletes here..and Myers is a very good one…He will be fine in the OF and I am guessing he will actually be a pretty good defensive OF

And given how they’ve handled the service clock of Butler and Hochevar, I think they care. And that extra year of team control is what his really important. The super two thing is a distant second.

That he played in Wichita.

Two years later and he would be boosted by the forcefield of greatness at NWA.

His season at AA was amazing!

.325 .427 .588

That proves Wil will be ready!

But being blocked very likely isn’t going to be the issues. The issues should be 1) is he sufficiently talented and developed to be MLB-ready? and 2) is it the best time for the organization to promote him?

Fans will be impatient. We’ve dealt with embarrassing losing seasons for way too long. Fans will want talent in the majors as soon as possible. But the Royals front office needs to do what is best for the team in the long-term to maximize Myers production and value to the team. There are circumstances in which this means promoting him mid-2012. I just don’t think that confluence of events is the most likely outcome.

extended time in AAA. It is more along the lines of what’s the rush?

So what, when talking about the chances of whether a highly touted prospect will be ready within a certain timeframe, we are only allowed to talk about those that were able to do it, while even BRINGING UP those that didn’t make it is “dumb as hell.”

Very nice. Well, perhaps your reading skills could use some work. Nobody said Myers most definitely end up like Gordon. In my post, I said it’s certainly possible that he could be ready by 2012, I just don’t think it’s that likely. Instead of just dismissing every opinion contrary to yours as “dumb as hell,” you could actually try to engage in intelligent baseball discussion.

Bringing up Gordon and other (so-far) failures is most certainly valid. Bringing up guys like Longoria is also valid. What is not valid is only looking at one side of the argument while just calling the other side “dumb as hell” just because you don’t agree.

that we could stand to trade some prospects for a proven player down the road. Soria could also go, but that seems less likely every day.

triple it.