Most of the guys they have we could have had if we were willing to spend big on the draft. Hopefully Ricketts will be willing to do so. take nothing away from the royals - they've done great to go well above slot to grab talents like myers, crow, dwyer, hosmer, etc, but they've also had the advantage of being consistently lousy and drafting at the front of each round. players like hosmer, moustakas and crow were not available when we were drafting. plus even their slot picks have had an above-average number of hits lately. they're doing the draft right... cubs are not. I get missing on the top guys, we had no chance to get them. But it would be nice to sign the great player everyone loves but dropped due to signability. Zack Lee for example last year, instead it seems we are hell bent on doing things our own way.