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1. Steve Sparks Flying Everywhere Posted: November 24, 2009 at 06:01 PM (#3395628)Gorkys Hernandez was a Top 100 prospect on some lists not long ago. What happened?
He reportedly lost a couple of MPH from his fastball last year. That's part of it. Analysts also tend to downgrade prospects a bit once the Pirates acquire them, for whatever reason. It's pretty widespread and pervasive, though - look at all the people who were willing to totally write off Tabata after the Nady deal, for example.
Gorkys Hernandez was a Top 100 prospect on some lists not long ago. What happened?
People suddenly noticed that he can't hit, and doesn't really project to do so, either.
It's a BA list, and the scout who told the Pirates to draft Sanchez is a former BA staffer.
The 15 year tradition of the Pirates having a hard time both developing players' skills and keeping them healthy?
The oddity is that at the start of last season, Alderson was seen as about the 50th best prospect in baseball. Now he's the 7th best prospect on Pittsburgh? He had a really good season for a 19 year old in 2008. Then he was much worse as a 20 year old. His strike out ratio was down by about 1/3, having moved up to AA (for most of 2009). If he just had a minor physical issue which caused him to lose some of his heat, he is terribly underrated right now. Of course, TINSTAAPP. So perhaps his 2008 season was a flash in the pan?
Which would be all well and good if Brian Graham and Lester Maddox and such were still hanging around in the organization, but they aren't. You should judge a team's player development ability on the merits of the people who are currently developing the players.
That said, I don't think it's just skepticism about the Pirates' staff. If you read pre-trade and post-trade scouting reports, there are notable differences in the qualities atttributed to the players under discussion. Even in things that should remain relatively constant, like overall athleticism.
Maybe BA just really, really likes Marte. And Lincoln. And D'Arnaud.
You should, but most of those guys don't have much of a track record yet. Until they do, they're going to be judged by the standards set by their predecessors.
That's also an issue of them being evaluated against the standards set by those who came before. The basic assumption is that, if the Pirates wanted these guys, then they're probably not as good as we think they are. It's unfair, but it's a consequence of those same 15 years of futility.
Maybe it was another poster, but I seem to recall you being up in arms about how terrible all the players the Pirates got at the deadline last year were.
Hey, I'm not saying it's right. I'm just trying to come up with a reason why it seems to be happening.
That was probably Justin; he hates almost every move the Pirates make.
Dave Littlefield was a terrible GM. Who is more deserving of current Littlefield-related criticism: The team that wised up and fired his ass, or the team that is right now paying him for scouting evaluations of players?
I think that might have been Justin Zeth.
Yeah, that's much more of a Zeth thing. I was pretty pumped about Alderson, and I loved the #### out of Milledge-Hanrahan.
Yeah, but he thinks it's an intentional plan to suck and profit. So wrong is actually right for them.
I think this is due more to Yankee prospects like Tabata being over-hyped than Pirate prospects being underrated.
Observers were souring on Alderson well before he was traded to the Pirates this year.
-- MWE
I think most teams would be damn happy to get an upside like that out of almost any pick.
It was Justin. I tried to console him that this ownership group does indeed have a plan and they're executing it, but he wasn't really biting. Not that I can blame him.
Tabata in 2nd is emblematic of the fact that this is a middling system.
That's his "ceiling", IMO - that's the "best" he's likely to be. And he's going to be 23 by the start of spring training, by which time Glaus already had a full season of ML experience under his belt.
I know this is going to sound like a broken record, but the strikeouts are on the high side.
-- MWE
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