SUNDAY MINORS THEAD 8/5/18: New FA Pitchers Strong Debuts

striker42 said:
Hursh was taken at 31. Aaron Judge was taken at 32.

Hursh is such a disappointment. He's got big league stuff but he's just a heaver. No idea how to pitch.
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Great, I already hated Hursh with a passion. Not personally, but proffesionally hate him because seeing him in a reminder that we just flushed thr pick down the toilet. I am sick and tired of these "high floor, low ceiling" pitchers who dont even reach their floor. Why in the hell do teams keep doing that ****. Oh look, a high floor college catcher. What could go wrong! Oops 10 years later and he is working at burger king.
 
cajunrevenge said:
Great, I already hated Hursh with a passion. Not personally, but proffesionally hate him because seeing him in a reminder that we just flushed thr pick down the toilet. I am sick and tired of these "high floor, low ceiling" pitchers who dont even reach their floor. Why in the hell do teams keep doing that ****. Oh look, a high floor college catcher. What could go wrong! Oops 10 years later and he is working at burger king.
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College isn't synonymous with low ceiling though.

Look at Kyle Wright and Touki, for example. Taken different paths to reach essentially the same place with essentially the same upside. You might prefer Touki, you might prefer Wright. I know there are people on both sides of it.

But hard to ignore that it took Wright a year and Touki four? years (plus big struggles and a change of clubs) to get there.
 
Super said:
hmm i don't think he said as much tho
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that is true. I didn't mean to pin him to that.

I assume there was good reason in the Braves front office to think that Hursh was going to be a better player than he ended up being. After all, Frank Wren was a luminary of our times.
And I'm sure there was plenty of reason to doubt Aaron Judge would be a superstar. Hence being available at 32.

There are always going to be misses. The MLB draft is the biggest crapshoot in the major sports.
 
Southcack77 said:
that is true. I didn't mean to pin him to that.

I assume there was good reason in the Braves front office to think that Hursh was going to be a better player than he ended up being. After all, Frank Wren was a luminary of our times.
And I'm sure there was plenty of reason to doubt Aaron Judge would be a superstar. Hence being available at 32.

There are always going to be misses. The MLB draft is the biggest crapshoot in the major sports.
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Using hindsight on drafts is an exercise in futility. So much about player development can't be predicted. Seeing Judge getting drafted right behind Hursh was too good not to comment though. It's just insult to injury.
 
striker42 said:
Using hindsight on drafts is an exercise in futility. So much about player development can't be predicted. Seeing Judge getting drafted right behind Hursh was too good not to comment though. It's just insult to injury.
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Trading Tex for Kotchman instead of getting the Trout draft pick is better
 
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