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Originally Posted by siberian khatru (Post 12889278)

Made sense from Allard's perspective. I mean, when you have Ruben Gotay as the future ...

Gotay lasted a loooong time in the minors. At the ripe young age of 34 this year, he's failed to find a team. Last year looks like it may have been his finale.

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Originally Posted by fahrenheit (Post 12889288)

Gotay lasted a loooong time in the minors. At the ripe young age of 34 this year, he's failed to find a team. Last year looks like it may have been his finale.

Holy shit, I had no idea. Man, talk about hanging on to the dream.

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Originally Posted by Prison Bitch (Post 12889281)

Duncan can correct me but I seem to recall Andy Miller being the obv choice in 06. And we were taking him no doubts, after he dominated the Cape Cod. I remember being really surprised we took Hoch. Or maybe I'm misremembering, as that era was a depressing blur

There's a little bit of it hit on here:

http://www.azsnakepit.com/2017/5/20/...a-diamondbacks

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You can’t do better than Kershaw here - though his arrival on the Dodgers was only the final result of a series of dominoes, beginning with an inability to sign their own supplemental first-round pick in 2005. That was Luke Hochevar, who thus re-entered the draft and went #1 overall the following year to Kansas City. The choice left Andrew Miller available to the Detroit Tigers at #6 - they had previously been set to pick Kershaw, and how different the NL West might be, otherwise. But that 2006 first round was a beast, also giving the baseball world the likes of Evan Longoria, Tim Lincecum and (sob...) Max Scherzer.

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Originally Posted by siberian khatru (Post 12889291)

Holy shit, I had no idea. Man, talk about hanging on to the dream.

That's a dream I'd have probably hung onto as well.

Now do the draft where we took Bubba Starling. IIRC, there is practically an All-Star team drafted in the picks after Bubba.....

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Originally Posted by Bowser (Post 12889303)

Now do the draft where we took Bubba Starling. IIRC, there is practically an All-Star team drafted in the picks after Bubba.....

http://i.imgur.com/5iJc7mc.gif

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Originally Posted by fahrenheit (Post 12889309)

http://i.imgur.com/5iJc7mc.gif

LMAO, yep

The one that pops to mind is George Springer, and he was a few picks back, I think.

Francisco Lindor, three picks later.

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Originally Posted by fahrenheit (Post 12889297)

There's a little bit of it hit on here:

http://www.azsnakepit.com/2017/5/20/...a-diamondbacks

Ohhhhh boy, imagine THAT rotation:

Kershaw
Mr Kate Upton
Scherzer
Annibal SancheZ
Fister

Greatest of all time? I say yes, but they did move Miller and Maybin to get Cabrera so that has to be factored

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Originally Posted by Prison Bitch (Post 12889281)

Kansas City was heavily connected to Miller, as well as Evan Longoria. They stayed away from Longoria because of Gordon.

Hochevar was a definite surprise in a draft with no clear cut top option. Also was a weird draft because Moore had been hired but didn't influence the picks in that draft - supposedly - out of respect to Atlanta (professional courtesy).

Just imagine KC takes Longoria there. And then is one game worse in 2007, therefore being in line for the slam dunk pick of David Price in the following draft.

In 2009, KC's lineup is anchored by Evan Longoria. It's rotation is led by Zack Greinke and David Price.

Who knows if that team wins a WS, but man, one loss and one different decision changes things completely.

Hell, if you really want to have fun, imagine Alex Gordon doesn't hit a walk off HR to win the last game of 2009. Royals then pick 3rd the next spring and take Manny Machado instead.

2011 team would have had Machado and Longoria on the left side of the infield, with a rotation still led by Greinke and Price...

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Originally Posted by duncan_idaho (Post 12889595)

Reads like its 2012 up in here.

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Originally Posted by Bowser (Post 12889598)

http://www.reactiongifs.us/wp-conten...f_interest.gif

Yeah, but then this happened:

http://mlb.mlb.com/images/8/7/0/1562...s_3ru7vqlv.gif