You're still trying to defend 5 drafts where they picked top 8, that have produced 8 MLB players (3 of them having less than 30 days experience) ?
If they drafted as well as the Cardinals, Mets, Giants, Nationals, etc, then they wouldn't have had to trot out crap like Jeff Locke, Juan Nicasio, and Jon Niese as part of an actual MLB starting rotation for half the season.
Then again, they'd still probably be holding those guys down in the minor leagues if they had drafted better, so it's a moot point.
Keep on defending and excusing, and then wonder why their ceiling is playing in the Clint Hurdle Invitational in early October.
You kind of pulled a Del there where you were asked to do something and then just regressed back to your argument 4 points ago. Well done.
Perhaps drafting better would have saved them from their rotation this year. Then again, perhaps doing the exact same thing and not having Taillon and Kingham pop their elbows in the year they were due up would have saved them, too.
Which is more or less my point. Everything is entirely premature when you're pointing to teams with a college heavy draft approach and now-depleted farm systems, and comparing them to a team with a high school heavy approach and a strong farm system. The timing is totally different.
And that's to say nothing of the fact that I have no idea why the Nationals are included in there.
I'm not really sure where the 8 players in 5 years is cherry picked out of, nor am I really defending anything. I said with just about all of the ones after 2009 that the jury is still out.
I don't know how I'm supposed to logically conclude that things are a total disaster, nor do I know how my inability to do that means I'm defending anything.