Posted by hockey1984 on 2/20/2016 10:03:00 AM (view original):
Geez. How does that even happen?
I'll guess.
1/ Poor arm. Might have been listed at an unexpected position in the draft rankings, which could "hide" a player.
2/ Nice hit ratings. Terrible pitch ratings, so-so health... dragged down his Overall. And since we can only see projections but not know if a player is actually decent
right now...
3/ Owners in his world light on College scouting as a group.
Thing I've found about this scouting system now is that I really have to be more diligent doing pre-ranks. And one factor of that time is trying to find mediocre players the system pushes up by default. I hate drafting a guy in the first round who's never going to hit ML pitching or defend at a ML level, but he was pushed up the draft board because his Overall is good. Every time one of those guys gets pushed up, one player like this one gets pushed down. Doing pre-ranks is more important now IMO.
That said, it's possible this player might have been hidden enough anyway.