Quote Originally Posted by Snowman View Post
The depth is solid, though after Pache and Waters, there is a real dearth of potential impact players. Scads of dudes who look like they may be good, solid roleplayers may well not keep us in the top 10 among systems. But the major league team in that instance would be young and deep and buy us a couple of years to start refreshing the system.
Yeah last year's draft strategy was to get a few lower cost college guys at the top who can help us sooner, and then use the remaining money to go ham on those high risk high schools or community college kids who have 1 or 2 flashy tools that give them high upside long term. I think the hope is that Shea and Braden can help soon while we can have a top prospect or two emerge out of guys like Harris, Grissom, Backstrom, Paolini, or Tyler Owens. I wasn't a fan of the strategy at the time, but I can see the logic behind it.