Monday, February 20, 2006

Joel Sherman

Who? He is a sports columnist for the New York Post. Yesterday he wrote a very short piece examining the Moneyball draft of 2002. (Yes, that would be the draft that resulted in many players being taken in my 2003 Minor League Draft.)

Mr. Sherman points out that the 2002 draft may turn out to be one of the best ever for high schoolers. I'll mention the ones he did - 1st rounders Scott Kazmir, Zach Greinke, Matt Cain, Jeff Francoeur (Ed: misspelled in article), Prince Fielder, Jeremy Hermida, BJ Upton, James Loney, Cole Hamels. Amongst the 2nd rounders were Robert Andino, Brian McCann, Jonathon Broxton and Jon Lester.

In fairness, he did write that Upton, Kazmir, Greinke, Fielder and Hermida had already been selected when the A's hit the clock at #15 and took Nick Swisher.

I saw this yesterday linked in Buster Olney's blog and read it last night after picking-up a copy of the Post. I had not realized prior to this AM that many people may have missed it because Buster is behind a subscription wall. That is why I wrote this post (and not to bash the fanatical, seemingly blind adherents of Billy Beane.).

It also tied nicely into my prior two posts.

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