Re: If I owned the Devil Rays...

On Fri, 28 Nov 2003 20:04:23 -0600, James Withrow
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>I'd rather see my team groom young position players and try to find pitchers
>on the market.  Pitchers are more likely to be pleasant surprises after
>they're 30 y-o.

Not to mention that, considering that there's no such thing as a
pitching prospect, your drafted position players are relatively more
likely to give you players and/or bargaining chips.  Admittedly, you
don't want to swear off drafting pitchers entirely, but you can save
your picks for the ones you think most likely to succeed - while
paying competetive rates for pitchers that already have succeeded.

--Craig


-- 
I start to wish Bob Melvin would walk out to the mound, ask Freddy if he
was injured, and then kick him in the balls so he can call in an 
emergency replacement from the bullpen  --Derek Zumsteg in BP, 5/13/2003