Comments on: Phillies Top 10 at BA

By: mwbbfan

mwbbfan — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 23:40:59 +0000

Hard to argue with that——wish Rolen was still here. He played hard and well while in Philadelphia.
I am gettin excited about Gose—he looks like a real down in the dirt gritty player.

By: DiamondDerby

DiamondDerby — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 03:35:58 +0000

This thread is reminding me of a pet idea of mine. Howard, Utley, Rollins, and Rolen are, in my view, the best drafted infield of contemporaries (players who could have all played together for multiple years) in baseball history. Dodgers of Cey, Garvey, etc. were good and a few others, but to me this infield 4 is phenomenal and best ever drafted in a common time frame.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 14:31:52 +0000

Allentown,
If the Phillies had picked first the year they drafted Utley 15th would they have still picked Utley with the very first pick?

By: nowheels please

nowheels please — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 03:11:47 +0000

I think B has a point . Many players with “good worth ethic”
drop them when they get some bucks in their pocket and have achieved being drafted. The credit belongs to Utley 90%.

By: allentown

allentown — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 02:21:35 +0000

B –
I don’t see how your comment negates the scouting. His work ethic was observable by every team’s scouts, as was his defensive ability, which was generally viewed an inadequate. Our scouts saw something that most of the other scouts did not. That is how we got the best player in the draft picking out of the #15 spot.