Cubs Drafting

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<!--quoteo(post=64504:date=Sep 26 2009, 09:34 PM:name=KBwsb)-->QUOTE (KBwsb @ Sep 26 2009, 09:34 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><!--quotec-->OTOH, look how the Mets did in a period of 9 years:

1985 Gregg Jefferies (pretty big star for awhile)
1982 Dwight Gooden (we took Dunston instead)
1980 Billy Beane (yeah, <i>that</i> Beane; actually sucked as a player)
1980 Darryl Strawberry (for 6-7 years, one of the 5 best players in MLB)
1979 Tim Leary (17-game winner)
1978 Hubie Brooks (All-Star, traded for Gary Carter-HOFer)
1977 Wally Backman (solid starter)

Obviously, they had a leg up on the competition during those years.

Or Butch's favorite team, who had a pretty nice 4-year stretch:
1990 Alex Fernandez
1989 Frank Thomas
1988 Robin Ventura
1987 Jack McDowell<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->


which, again, shows how much of a crapshoot this is. The sox had maybe the best 4 year run of anyone in draft history. Now go take a look at every other first rounder they drafted. Harold Baines is the only guy to do anything for them. So a team that was awful drafting during it's entire history, hits the jackpot 4 years running. Then nothing (until maybe Beckham now).