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- Jul 27, 2010
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The draft is a hard one, to truly evaluate a draft you almost have to do it 3 years later.
Yeah, to claypool’s point, some more patience would do everyone some good.
Unfortunately this website is notorious for being knee jerk, and using small sample sizes. I think someone literally made a re-draft thread like 3 months after the 2017 Draft on the prospect board? Bananas.
Rasmussen isn’t a bad prospect, and he’s not having a bad +1 year. Also sometimes bigger guys break out in their +2 year, like we are seeing with Kieffer Bellows. But we are in uncharted territory a bit, not really getting the benefit of the doubt with our picks like we did when I joined this board. I was just saying I don’t think the loss of faith in scouting is unwarranted, even if unfortunately people take it too far.
Ras is a safe bet to give you the expected return for a typical #9 pick, and we are good at not outright whiffing on our picks. Just not sure he’s a good bet to vastly outproduce that draft position. Only pick we have really done that with lately is Larkin, and he had the most impressive +1 season (and 1 season improvement) since being drafted I can remember in forever.