Derwood

http://www.hardballtimes.com/the-legend-of-danny-goodwin/ Expected to be a power-hitting catcher, but messed up his shoulder on his throwing arm and basically wrecked him as a catcher. Sucked defensively as a 1B and never panned out as a hitter in the bigs and that was that. That's a pity. Then again, these 1st rounds are littered with wasted potential

I want to know the story of Danny Goodwin. Draft #1 overall TWICE and a -1.7 career bWAR

This is bWAR, not fWAR, though Fangraphs only has him slightly higher at 19.0

Just for fun, the career bWAR of all the #1 overall picks since 1965 * = no MLB service time bold = still active 117.7 - Alex Rodriguez (1993) 85.0 - Chipper Jones (1990) 83.6 - Ken Griffey Jr. (1987) 50.0 - Joe Mauer (2001) 43.8 - Adrian Gonzalez (2000) 42.0 - Darryl Strawberry (1980) 38.5 - Harold Baines (1977) 34.3 - B.J. Surhoff (1985) 33.1 - Rick Monday (1965) 32.3 - Darin Erstad (1995) 31.9 - David Price (2007) 31.7 - Andy Benes (1988) 28.5 - Mike Moore (1981) 28.1 - Josh Hamilton (1999) 26.9 - Floyd Bannister (1976) 26.7 - Justin Upton (2005) 26.2 - Tim Belcher (1983) 21.7 - Bob Horner (1978) 21.5 - Bryce Harper (2010) 20.9 - Ben McDonald (1989) 18.8 - Pat Burrell (1998) 18.2 - Stephen Strasburg (2009) 17.6 - Jeff Burroughs (1969) 16.7 - Jeff King (1986) 15.8 - Phil Nevin (1992) 13.0 - Kris Benson (1996) 11.5 - Shawon Dunston (1982) 10.1 - Carlos Correa (2012) 9.4 - Gerrit Cole (2011) 9.4 - Ron Blomberg (1967) 7.2 - Mike Ivie (1970) 5.5 - Tim Foli (1968) 4.8 - Bill Almon (1974) 3.1 - Luke Hochever (2006) 2.5 - Delmon Young (2003) 2.2 - Paul Wilson (1994) 2.1 - Matt Bush (2004) 1.3 - Tim Beckham (2008) 0.7 - David Clyde (1973) 0.4 - Dave Roberts (1972) 0.0 - Mickey Moniak (2016) * 0.0 - Dansby Swanson (2015) * 0.0 - Brady Aiken (2014) * 0.0 - Mark Appel (2013) * 0.0 - Brien Taylor (1991) * 0.0 - Steven Chilcott (1966) * -0.2 - Bryan Bullington (2002) -0.5 - Matt Anderson (1997) -0.5 - Al Chambers (1979) -1.3 - Shawn Abner (1984) -1.7 - Danny Goodwin (1975+1971)

I'm bored so I'm making some baseball quizzes on Sporcle. I'm looking at all the first rounds of the amateur drafts, and I don't know if there was a worse year than 1975 http://www.baseball-reference.com/draft/?draft_type=junreg&query_type=year_round&draft_round=1&year_ID=1975 Rick Cerone's 8.1 career bWAR is #1 in that year's first round, and all the players in the first round combined for a 10.7 career bWAR. WOOF ETA: By contrast, the 1977 draft has six players with a career bWAR over 20, with a total round career bWAR of 264.8

Just watched that NLCS vid......Fowler is all over that thing. :(

That dude who was bitching about this wasn't from the area, right? Because that would be hilarious if it was the same guy

It reminds me of when USC had so many 5 star recruits that some of them just never got playing time (see: Matt Cassel)

PSU signed Tariq Castro-Fields as well

Penn State's recruiting class is a real-life Key&Peele sketch

Now that's a name I haven't hear in a long time.......long time

Only $1000? I'll take 10

LeBron already has Kyrie, Love, Tristan and Korver. The Cavs have the highest payroll in the league. I don't know what else he wants

Bannon all day

I think it's clearly "evil". Nothing he does is by accident. It's all coldly calculated, and it's all evil

Choose wisely

I've basically chosen to not watch the team this year. Not out of protest, but out of disinterest. I can't imagine spending two hours watching them anymore

I like him already

Take the over

and not that money (or lack thereof) excuses it in any way to begin with, and I know it gets said every time a high profile celeb gets pegged for DUI or dies in a wreck, but why the hell aren't they being driven around when they go out and get trashed wtf It's no fun to have someone else drive your Ferrari

Someone straighten Bryant's tie for chrissake. Oh, right, he's not making "entourage of stylists" money yet

Josh Gordon isn't worth the headaches

Piazza

That's a pose I strike a lot, so it's perfect for me