Quote Originally Posted by Homedawg View Post
Not saying this is goi g to happen but here's an example of improving .... Uber talented Dakota Hudson pitched here his Jr year AFTER he had his scholarship yanked. A year later he was a 1st rounder. People get better. Heck, from all our first round pitchers thru the years, jay Powell was by far the best his fr year. Bj Wallace was raw and meh. Loewer, same. Ginter couldn't throw strikes. Ethan small couldn't get anyone out ... then blew his arm out. It's not rare fr struggle in this league. Matter of fact, it's more common than being good as a fr. Even today.
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Mahlom was good as a fr. Dubose was good but made a jump the next year to greater heights.
All this is no doubt true. The issue is not that these guys are unable to improve. You can point to plenty of guys who were great but struggled initially. But you can point to more who just continued to struggle. And we do not have essentially anyone we know we can count on going into next year. We need EVERYONE, or at least quite a few, to take big jumps at the same time. Possible, but seems quite unlikely.