halladay had no ability to "spin a breaking pitch". maybe fastball velocity and height. he drafted the worst pitcher in the league for the team and got lucky someone knew how to turn him into a completely different pitcher than the one wilken drafted. he, again, was one of the worst pitchers in the AL. if not for Halladay's legendarily bad year in 2000, he would have been THE worst. it took the worst year by any starting pitcher ever to eclipse his badness. one of the pitfalls of drafting on looks, not substance, of ignoring peripherals. you get a few good years out of a naturally talented player sandwiched between years of struggle, one of them has a great contract year and then boom, you're paying them way more than they're worth and your team is panicking to get rid of the one-time jewels of their system. wells and rios are fool's gold. you know, it's remarkably hard to tell if you're falling or flying when you don't have wings. barney sucks and soto was not signed on wilken's watch. I fail to see your point. as if it's my job and not theirs. lol, wilken's been around for what 6 drafts? and now, this last draft, a draft in which no one has proven anything yet, you're going to point to it as a job-saver for him? that's awesome.