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Originally Posted by duncan_idaho
I mentioned this down the thread...
The criticism there MIGHT be down the road... if Denney turns into a monster (good chance, IMO) and Cody Reed turns into a pumpkin, you'll wonder why they didn't flip those picks (even though Reed was a fringy 1st round type).
Dozier/Mannaea/Reed/Denney would have been pretty tough to complain about, IMO. Denney has more than a touch of Wil Myers to him.
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Yeah, I realized after I read through the thread that you went over all this already; poor form on my part.
Honestly, I'd have preferred Denney to Manaea, if for no other reason than the fact that a pitcher with
any injury scares me. All he has to do is come back favoring that hip just a little bit, even imperceptibly, and he ends up thrashing his shoulder on account of it. Additionally, I think he'd have fallen a little further due to the injury concerns combined with signability concerns.
That said, I can't really fault the approach, though I do question if Dozier was really the best they could do there, even if they're basing the pick on signability. He's damn sure not a SS, so I'm guessing they profile him as a 3b.