Think about a baseball player whose achievement is in the top 1%. What does that look like? At a minimum does that mean an All-Star?
Recently, two things re-shaped my thinking. A former minor-league Diamondback retired (we’ll get to that in a minute) and Scott Boris made a statement. Let’s start with his quote.
“And the number of players who really spend three years in the major leagues, when you look at the all the players drafted, it’s a well less than one percent.” — Scott Boris
In the latest AZ Snake Pit roundtable, I wrote about my high expectations for many first-round draftees in the Diamondbacks’ farm system.