Wow

[Coach C]

I was looking through ESPN Page2 on the 100 worst draft picks ever on this link.

 

http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?page=schoenfield/060427

 

As most of you know that I follow the Royals (Not as close as the Cubs) I was stunned on the Royals first round picks from 1992 to 2001.

 

You'd have to scroll down 2/3rd of the page to go to number 27 and it runs from 27 to 18.

 

All of the Royals first-round picks, from 1992-2001, pretty much bombed, big time. Wow. :shock:

[RynoRules]

I saw that yesterday and meant to post it here. I can't believe not one of those guys panned out in any way at the ML level. I guess that's why they are what they are.

[UMFan83]

Is Luis Montanez on that list?

[snoodmonger]

haha, colt griffin. Is he out of baseball already?

[wolf stansson]

haha, colt griffin. Is he out of baseball already?

Judging by name he's probably in porn.

[RynoRules]

haha, colt griffin. Is he out of baseball already?

Judging by name he's probably in porn.

 

Good one. Or has a KC car dealership.

[CubinNY]

Bill Bene, Los Angeles Dodgers (No. 5, 1988)

No, that's not Billy Beane, the Oakland general manager. This guy was a hard-throwing right-hander who was wilder than Charlie Sheen on vacation in Cancun during spring break. Bene rarely pitched at Cal State Los Angeles, but the Dodgers clocked him at 100 mph and took him over such future big leaguers as Jim Abbott, Robin Ventura, Tino Martinez and Alex Fernandez. At one point, the Dodgers wouldn't let him pitch batting practice to live batters and had him pitch to a department-store mannequin. Career totals in the minors: 18-34, 5.45 ERA, 516 innings, 543 walks, 502 strikeouts.

[snoodmonger]

Bill Bene, Los Angeles Dodgers (No. 5, 1988)

No, that's not Billy Beane, the Oakland general manager. This guy was a hard-throwing right-hander who was wilder than Charlie Sheen on vacation in Cancun during spring break. Bene rarely pitched at Cal State Los Angeles, but the Dodgers clocked him at 100 mph and took him over such future big leaguers as Jim Abbott, Robin Ventura, Tino Martinez and Alex Fernandez. At one point, the Dodgers wouldn't let him pitch batting practice to live batters and had him pitch to a department-store mannequin. Career totals in the minors: 18-34, 5.45 ERA, 516 innings, 543 walks, 502 strikeouts.

 

I saw that, too. "A department store mannequin"? How many of those Ks were guys just jumping out of the box and swinging out of abject terror?

[Outshined_One]

Leave it to ESPN to find a way to get Derek Jeter involved in this article.

 

Also, the sheer amount of omitted information on some statistics (ZOMG FIRST ROUND QBS WILL NEVAR EVAR PAN OUT!!!111) kinda drives me nuts.

 

I know this is supposed to be in good fun. I laughed at some of it. But come on.

[soccer10k]

Bill Bene, Los Angeles Dodgers (No. 5, 1988)

No, that's not Billy Beane, the Oakland general manager. This guy was a hard-throwing right-hander who was wilder than Charlie Sheen on vacation in Cancun during spring break. Bene rarely pitched at Cal State Los Angeles, but the Dodgers clocked him at 100 mph and took him over such future big leaguers as Jim Abbott, Robin Ventura, Tino Martinez and Alex Fernandez. At one point, the Dodgers wouldn't let him pitch batting practice to live batters and had him pitch to a department-store mannequin. Career totals in the minors: 18-34, 5.45 ERA, 516 innings, 543 walks, 502 strikeouts.

 

I think he might have had a bit of a control problem.

[ConstableRabbit]

Some of these are all-out bad, but hindsight is 20/20.

[soccer10k]

Some of these are all-out bad, but hindsight is 20/20.

 

Everybody had Peyton Manning and Ryan Leaf 1 and 1a. Just think where the Colts might be right now if they had drafted Leaf instead of Manning.

[Guest]

Bill Bene, Los Angeles Dodgers (No. 5, 1988)

No, that's not Billy Beane, the Oakland general manager. This guy was a hard-throwing right-hander who was wilder than Charlie Sheen on vacation in Cancun during spring break. Bene rarely pitched at Cal State Los Angeles, but the Dodgers clocked him at 100 mph and took him over such future big leaguers as Jim Abbott, Robin Ventura, Tino Martinez and Alex Fernandez. At one point, the Dodgers wouldn't let him pitch batting practice to live batters and had him pitch to a department-store mannequin. Career totals in the minors: 18-34, 5.45 ERA, 516 innings, 543 walks, 502 strikeouts.

 

I think he might have had a bit of a control problem.

Meh, he was just a Steve Dalkowski clone without as good of a fastball.