Two Former Top-100 Prospects Proving Baseball Development is Rarely Linear

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27 minutes ago, Schmoeman5 said:

Cole didn't strike out a batter per inning. It was .95. Those were some not good Pirates teams. And they did handle him cautiously.  Just like any organization would. Just because he wasn't known on the national stage doesn't mean baseball people weren't taking note. And if you're insisting that the ball Martin booted in the 1st inning where he moved 3 feet wasn't an error. Then I question your baseball IQ.  Since you're questioning mine. 

1st of all I'm not questioning your baseball IQ. I'm just setting the record straight on you trying to negate the points (that you didn't like) when I used unbias & qualified sources,

I couldn't see if Martin moved 3ft or more but I can tell you that he didn't have time to set himself up in front of the ball where he could field that ball squarely so he'd have to back-hand the ball.

You can believe that Martin made the error, or Cole was a monster while in PIT (while he had the potential to be, but that wasn't the point I was making) I don't care & I won't make a point to refute it. But don't set yourself higher than unbias more qualified personnel just to refute my point that you don't like,

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Every team needs a couple 124 ops+ guys that aren’t necessarily allstars. 

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Trevor Larnach hits a home run after sucking for two months: TD publishes a bunch of articles about how he's turned a corner, LOL.