Rebuilding a baseball team is not an exact science. There are no assurances when it comes to how a group of minor league prospects will pan out and there are a lot of factors that go into a team’s rebuild, like their budget and their farm system, for starters.
Baltimore is all in on a rebuild right now, as you may have heard. Long before the trades started happening, their minor league system was not well regarded at all, ranking 23rd out of 30 clubs in Minor League Ball’s preseason rankings.
Having a strong system of prospects can go a long way towards shortening the timeline of a rebuild, as evidenced a few years ago with the New York Yankees.