Colvin called up

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I never followed Colvin much, but I do know he had that elbow reconstruction not to long ago. How much of his initial sucktitude with us had to do with that? Was the second half just him finally being past the injury (kind of like DLee and his wrist) or a flash in the pan, or a little bit of both?

 

Flash in the pan. He blows worst first round pick ever.

Drew Hall, Ty Griffin, and Earl Cunningham say hi.

 

As do Lou Montanez, Bobby Brownlie, Ryan Harvey, and Mark Pawalek.

Was Gary Scott a first rounder?

 

And I still remember all the Earl Cunningham rookie cards I had. :bye:

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I never followed Colvin much, but I do know he had that elbow reconstruction not to long ago. How much of his initial sucktitude with us had to do with that? Was the second half just him finally being past the injury (kind of like DLee and his wrist) or a flash in the pan, or a little bit of both?

 

Flash in the pan. He blows worst first round pick ever.

Drew Hall, Ty Griffin, and Earl Cunningham say hi.

 

As do Lou Montanez, Bobby Brownlie, Ryan Harvey, and Mark Pawalek.

Was Gary Scott a first rounder?

 

And I still remember all the Earl Cunningham rookie cards I had. :bye:

Scott was our second rounder that year. I was living in Peoria when Earl came through. He was a nice enough guy. Always signed for us kids. But we used to hang out by the other teams bullpens and they always made fun of Earl by his second year. Saying he had 120Ks and the like.

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If it makes you feel any better, between Thomas at #8 and Mo Vaugh and Chuck Knoblauch at 23 and 25 respectively there really wasnt much to speak of in that draft.

John Olerud and Tim Salmon in round 3 say hi.

Jeff Bagwell and Scott Erickson from round 4.

Reading is a skill.

Thanks. Although he kinda worded it weird. Lucky for me you were here.

Also Charles Johnson and Cal Eldred say hello.

 

Im not going to lose a wink of sleep over Cal Eldred, but Johnson would have been an upgrade over every catcher we had between Jody Davis and Geovany Soto, aside from Rick Wilkens 1 good year, and Joe Girardi and Damon Berryhill need not say hi.

Cal still made it to the big leagues and its possible we could have used him for trade fodder. Still better than a kid who never made it out of A ball.