You're clearly misunderstanding me. By "this year" I mean going into this year. How the hell can I foresee several prospects struggling and starting off cold as the basis for potential ratings? Don't you see the flaw in your own logic.
And again you are still treating all A's equal. I've been looking into all these potential grades, where they fall, and what descriptions they had and such for years now, so stop it.
You're barking up the wrong tree. I never said that and I've been a big proponent in pushing the idea that C player's are average starting players towards people who think C's aren't worth your time. You're really trying to put words in my mouth to the point that I believe you're just trolling, or at least it's a little interesting that not once have you brought this up during the time for when we were all working this, but once this article came out for the OS front page. At the very least it feels like you're trying to discredit all the work I put in these rosters, so perhaps maybe YOU should take care of the Padres next year, or at the very least make the adjustments on your own roster.
In AA, up to 12 baseball clubs can make playoffs, in Triple-A it's 8. The sim engine is not perfect hence it loses all credibility when you point out that the big league club made the playoffs in 3 times.
The Padres have weak rotation, if all things stay equal, I'm not surprised that a guy currently in AA is their second-best pitcher, unless you really think he's only marginally better than Robbie Erlin. What is Sampson's overall by 2015? I bet you it's at most a B-. Rymer Liriano is probably a B- as well (and it's not like Will Venable is anything special).
I'm sorry, this is beginning to irritate me. Perhaps I'll never volunteer to work on the OSFM rosters again since you are completely bothered by something that I left open to everyone way before I started working on this team. Of course you're the go-to source for all this stuff, I should've known to seek your wisdom and have gotten your permission before doing this rather than trying to pull things from various reputable sources and working from them.
Edit: You contributed a little in the top prospect thread, although you only said that you see no superstars. Again, none of the four players are given superstar potential... you keep questioning and I keep saying the same thing over and over, it's an endless circle. Superstar potential IMO is anything from a Mid-A to a Max-A. No Padre prospect has a mid-A in their potential.
You had from February 12 to say whatever you wanted to in the Padres OSFM thread. Don't tell me you never saw it because you took the time to give some input in my Diamondbacks OSFM thread which has been around at the same time.