zarley zelepukin
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They've lost my faith in drafting recently. I hope Crawford changes that but it seems like they've gone with guys with high athleticism and not necessarily "baseball" players, if that makes any sense.
It makes sense, they've definitely been guilty of that at times. But I think they've done it less in recent drafts. Everybody and their mom gave the Phils good marks for the draft last year. The last really high pick they made that was all tools/no skills was Larry Green in 2011; definitely a bad pick.
Before that it was the 08 draft where they went Hewitt and Collier with their first two picks, but later they drafted Anthony Gose, Jason Knapp, Vance Worley, Jon Pettibone, Trevor May, Mike Stutes, Michael Schwimer, BJ Rosenberg and Tyler Cloyd, who all turned out to be useful in some way. All those guys have played in the majors except Knapp (who was traded for Cliff Lee) and Trevor May, who I think will pitch in the majors eventually. That's a pretty remarkable number of successes from a single draft.