01-28-2014, 03:46 PM
Quote:He was seen as very "toolsy". He was high in those rankings, but I still don't think he was every as highly regarded as some of this current crop.Well, I think you can look back now and say he was overrated because people fell in love with the 5-tool player idea, but my point was just that he was as big of a deal when he started in the minors if not bigger than Baez is now. I think the big difference now is we have multiple guys at once at the top of these lists, instead of 1. But over the last several years I'd argue Patterson and Pryor were our two biggest or best regarded prospects by scouts. Since Pie I guess Vitters comes to mind, but he never seemed to hit the Patterson or Pryor level of gushing by scouts. It's certainly cool to look at the potential of multiple guys now, instead of one at time which seemed to be the norm for awhile.