Originally Posted by
jpx7
Look: [MENTION=33]Tapate50[/MENTION] may very well be right that Allard was far-and-away the best-player-available left on the board for the Braves, at least in their estimation, and that's fine. And yet, when you read things like, "Look for the Braves to keep picking high-school arms," that indicates the organization may not be looking best-player but best-pitcher-available, which is a different philosophy and one whose merits (at this moment in the team's trajectory) are entirely fine to debate. I also think it's entirely fine—welcome, even, on such a forum as this—to say, "Well, I wish they'd look to some high-upside offense in the first seventy-five," or even argue that specific bats represented better values or better bets at a given spot in the draft.