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Originally Posted by Mecca
Doesn't duncan always defend Moore?
I'm pretty sure he's busy still defending some of the bad draft picks.
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I don't agree with everything Moore has done. Far from it. Most of his major league moves have not worked.
But I am a big fan of the way the minor league system has been rebuilt under Moore.
And as for "bad draft picks..." I'm not among the group that has written off Moustakas and Hosmer, if that's what you mean. I just am not a big fan of criticizing for selections in the first round of the MLB draft. It's a crapshoot. It's easy now to look back in retrospect and say they should have drafted Braun, Porcello and Heyward ...
I still think Moose is closer to the player who posted impressive power numbers at Burlington as a 19-year-old than the guy who struggled at the cavernous stadium in Wilmington (and hit well away from the Blue Rocks' home). And one season - playing through an injury to his guide hand and dealing with just-diagnosed vision issues - is not nearly enough to write off Hosmer.
Should know a hell of a lot more about both players by the end of this season.
Anyway, all that is beside the point... a guy who has proven he is a .250 hitter with 15-20 HR power IN THE MINOR LEAGUES does not deserve as much talk as Kila gets, no matter how many walks he can draw.