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  1. 1. Who has been most disappointing to you as a #1 draft choice, over the last 20 years? (objective or subjective) (multiple choices possible)

    • 2016 Cody Sedlock
      1
    • 2013 Hunter Harvey
      6
    • 2012 Kevin Gausman
      0
    • 2011 Dylan Bundy
      3
    • 2009 Matt Hopgood
      57
    • 2008 Brian Matusz
      18
    • 2007 Matt Wieters
      6
    • 2006 Billy Rowell
      53
    • 2004 Wade Townsend
      11
    • 2002 Adam Loewen
      16

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Who has been most disappointing to you as a #1 draft choice, over the last 20 years?

Your choice can be objective ("This means WAR!") or subjective (personal disappointment).

It can reflect injuries, a career that stalled, or sheer overhype ("the switch-hitting Jesus").

Fire away!

PS Poll limit is 10, so I stopped short of Chris Smith, Beau Hale, Mike Paradis, et al.

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You know a guy was bad when you can't even get his name right! All but two of the picks were defensible at the time.

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I'm looking at it from the opposite angle.  I don't fault the O's for the Rowell pick since he was a reasonable selection at that point in the draft.  Hobgood wasn't.  I don't blame Hobgood for gettin

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How is 18 WAR, 4-time all star, 2-time Gold Glove “almost replacement level?”   Wieters was very good, just not great.    Really, the expectations placed on him came from his 2008 MiL season in A+/AA;

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Rowell.

I understand the frustration with the Hobgood situation, but that wasn't that kids fault.  It's not his fault that the Orioles are stupid.  I didn't like the pick, I don't think anyone really did.  But I'm not going to hold the Orioles stupidity against that guy.

Rowell was just a big flameout.  And then he started hitting the reefer with Corn and got an attitude problem.  

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5 minutes ago, Moose Milligan said:

Rowell.

I understand the frustration with the Hobgood situation, but that wasn't that kids fault.  It's not his fault that the Orioles are stupid.  I didn't like the pick, I don't think anyone really did.  But I'm not going to hold the Orioles stupidity against that guy.

Rowell was just a big flameout.  And then he started hitting the reefer with Corn and got an attitude problem.  

I'm looking at it from the opposite angle.  I don't fault the O's for the Rowell pick since he was a reasonable selection at that point in the draft.  Hobgood wasn't.  I don't blame Hobgood for getting hurt and not being good but it was a bad pick, why pick a high risk guy with a relatively low ceiling in the top 5?

So while I was more disappointed with Rowell as a player I was more disappointed with the Hobgood selection.

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1 minute ago, Can_of_corn said:

I'm looking at it from the opposite angle.  I don't fault the O's for the Rowell pick since we was a reasonable selection at that point in the draft.  Hobgood wasn't.  I don't blame Hobgood for getting hurt and not being good but it was a bad pick, why pick a high risk guy with a relatively low ceiling in the top 5?

So while I was more disappointed with Rowell as a player I was more disappointed with the Hobgood selection.

I hear ya.  I don't necessarily disagree and I understand where you're coming from.  But as you said, we're looking at it from different angles.  

I was disappointed with the Hobgood selection, too.  But knowing that he was a reach made me adjust expectations accordingly.  Rowell was a prep stud, lit it up in his first season and then just couldn't hack it.  Hobgood was a big question from the start.

But to answer your question....Orioles stupidity.  I'm not sure why they went that route but they did.  It was dumb.

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Unquestionably Hopgood. 

Some of these guys were just not great players, and at the very worst an indictment of the development or scouting departments.

Hobgood was a failure of ownership, who punted on the draft at a time when they needed a miracle the most. It was a truly reckless maneuver to cost cut here.

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16 minutes ago, Enjoy Terror said:

Unquestionably Hopgood. 

Some of these guys were just not great players, and at the very worst an indictment of the development or scouting departments.

Hobgood was a failure of ownership, who punted on the draft at a time when they needed a miracle the most. It was a truly reckless maneuver to cost cut here.

That was Townsend not Hobgood.  O's spent 8.8M on the Hobgood draft.  They gave Coffey a million and Ohlman somewhere around the same.

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1 minute ago, Can_of_corn said:

That was Townsend not Hobgood.  O's spent 8.8M on the Hobgood draft.  They have Coffey a million and Ohlman somewhere around the same.

Townsend was a last minute audible when Angelos went in the draft room and demanded they draft a college pitcher.  They were set to draft a SS, either Chris Nelson or Stephen Drew.

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