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J Hench's avatar

I tend to think of this as a scouting/drafting failure, rather than a development failure. Although I suppose they don’t need to be exclusive. But to my mind, if you draft a bunch of guys with ERAs in the 5s in college, you shouldn’t be surprised when you end up with a bunch of guys with ERAs in the 5s in the minors. This was an entirely foreseeable outcome of a poor drafting strategy.

Now, it’s possible for the 2023 draftees to still turn things around - arguably you need more than a few months to execute whatever changes the Pirates have been working on. But the lack of success of the ‘22 draftees doesn’t give a lot of hope in that respect.

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Catch22's avatar

Are any of these guys high draft picks? Relative to where these dudes are drafted, isn't this expected?

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