What Do All These Players Have in Common?
Edwin Jackson, Greg Miller (both with the Dodgers)
Adam Lowen, Zack Greinke, Gavin Floyd, Jose Contreras,
Adam Wainwright, Jeremy Bonderman (up and Down) Dennis Tankersley,
Jerome Williams (Giants) Jon Rauch (minor league player of the year with the White sox),
Boof Bonser, Chin Hui Tsao with the Rockies was HUGE.
Bobby Bradley with the Pirates, Kurt Ainsworth with the Giants, Bud Smith with the Cardinals.
Brett Myers, (Not nearly as good as advertised.)
Mark Mulder and Bary Zito (only had a couple of good seasons but also not as good as advertised.)
Matt Riley with the Orioles was a Huge prospect , Kip Wells, Wilfredo Rodriguez with Houston.
Tony Armas Jr, Carl Pavano (both were HUGE) prospects Montreal got for Pedro.
Jon Garland, Danys Baez, Jesus Colome. Bruce Chen was the next Tom Glavine.
AJ Burnette Didn't turn out as good as expected, JOHN PATTERSON.
Ryan Bradley with the Yanks, Jeff Weaver , Matt White with the (Devil) Rays.
Kris Benson was hailed as the next Messiah, Matt Clement.
Jaret Wright ("the next Clemens") Braden Looper threw 100 MPH
Prior, Wood, Jesse Foppert, Juan Cruz, Ryan Anderson, Rick Ankiel,
Brad Penny.
And Finally Paul Wilson and Bill Pulsipher.
ANSWER:
The answer to this question is, they were all HUGE pitching prospects over the last decade and NONE of them turned out to be what they were supposed to be.
Sure, some of these guys had moderate success in the majors. But by and large, they all are disappointments.
Every single one of these guys was predicted in Baseball America to be Extremely productive pitchers if not Aces for many years to come.
But, we all know that "Prospects are Suspects".
(These 46 names were compiled by Avi D,
There are more . These are just the poster boys of the list of baseball busts)
After seeing that list of let downs. How can you justify Not Trading Phillip "the Phranchise" Hughes, Ian Patric Kennedy etc...
For relatively young established Major league aces when they are available?(ie, Johan last year, and Peavy this year )
It just doesn't make sense. Even if Hughes lives up to his potential , he never will come close to the hall Of Famer in the making (Johan).
I know that Peavy is an extreme drop off from Santana. But we cant miss out on the same kind of opportunity just because of last years "NON" trade.
There are always prospects who actually do live up to there potential.
Yes every now and then we encounter guys like Lincecum , Cain and Joba. Beckett and Shields Garza and Kershaw, Billingsley ,Volquez ,Danks and Hamels.
(some of these guys are still yet to prove it for more than a few years, but you get my drift)
But to every ten busts there is only one success story.
What I'm trying to say is, Get the ace when you have a chance . Because when it comes to prospects , pitching in particular. Its like NY Lotto's slogan. "Hey Ya Never Know..."
2 comments:
but you could look to the other ny slogan "YA GOTTA BELIEVE"...lol
I don't think the yanks will make the same mistake this year. if we can get jake peavy from san diego, the yanks should surely part ways with everyone including phil hughes.
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