This is totally overkill, but let's look at how the 2002 MLB draft went down. The Pirates had the #1 pick and took...
1. BRYAN BULLINGTON - Pittsburgh
Fine, it was a poor draft class, we made a mistake, let's move on. Wait, it wasn't? Sh*t.
2. BJ UPTON
6. ZACK GREINKE
7. PRINCE FIELDER
9. JEFF FRANCIS
11. JEREMY HERMIDA
12. JOE SAUNDERS
15. SCOTT KAZMIR
17. COLE HAMELS
22. JEREMY GUTHRIE
25. MATT CAIN
That would be 6 competent aces, a quality starter, and 3 young, proven MLB talents. Now I understand sometimes the draft can be a crap shoot, but GOOD LORD! Is the Pirates scouting really THAT BAD?
Well, they made up for it in Round 2 at least...or not.
42. BLAIR JOHNSON - Pittsburgh
44. JOEY VOTTO
57. JON LESTER
60. JONATHAN BROXTON
64. BRIAN MCCANN
Sure, a lot of teams passed over some of that talent as well, but it is a horrible recurring theme through the years for the Pirates to miss these guys. If there is a scout from 2002 who recommended Bullington and Johnson over some of those other names, I sure hope he is working at Burger King now, because any job where he would have to use his brain would turn into a disaster.
On a side note, I'd like to honor (as much as I can on a blog that 4 people read) Zack Greinke for his unbelievable start to the season. This guy could barely make it through life, let alone pitch in the major leagues, just 2 or 3 years ago. Pretty amazing, ditto for Josh Hamilton.
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Whatever happened to the power rankings?
I remember that draft, and I am fairly certain that everyone agreed that bullington was the best pitcher at the time.
Sadly you can torture yourself by looking at every draft at the players the Pirates passed up...
I can put up my April power rankings by the end of the day. Work has been busy and doing the contest on my blog has taken up more time.
I don't think we can judge this draft yet. We don't know how Bryan Bullington and Blair Johnson are going to turn out. :| FML.
True. Maybe Bullington will find himself with the Blue Jays, and maybe Johnson will win employee of the month at the Chrysler-Koons car dealership.
This investigation would be just as painful if applied to the Knicks. Except you could pick pretty much any year in the past decade.
that is true. sometimes i forget that the knicks have a basketball team.
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