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Originally Posted by pauwoo
Hopefully he can develop some movement, and not kill anybody with his Nuke LaLoosh control.  |
Exactly!
And trust me, I know this is almost surely not going to happen.
But at the very least he actually looks like he will be competent at the lower levels of the organization and possibly even dominant with his wicked fastball.
Plus, there is always the chance, however distant, that he gets boosts in both movement and control, even just to not abysmal (say, 4 or so on both) and the fact that now that he is in our organization it is also possible that in time our scout will see him as even better than first thought (getting a more accurate reading than when he was still a collegiate player.) That one cuts both ways though- he might decide he is even more of a dog than he originally believed.
But just to re-iterate my intention in sharing this (as I perhaps didn't explain this very well before): there were only a few players in the draft chosen after this guy, in what appeared to be a very weak draft. He's horrible yes. But if our scout is right about any of this, he isn't nearly as horrible as a player should be taken at the last minute of the draft.
That was my point.
