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Dang Benintendi on the Cubs…..
chesteraarthur
There was plenty of talk about this at the time the draft happened. I guess most “cubs fans” weren’t really paying attention to the team at that point though.
clazar18
Lame shot at cubs fans. Yes near draft time Benintendi was tied to the Cubs along with atleast 3 other potential prospect names that had long shots of dropping to the #9 spot. To suggest Benintendi should have been a house hold name for the average Cubs fan in June 2015 is just dumb.
thegreatcerealfamine
Cubs fans..cough*cough..Bandwagoners!!
66TheNumberOfTheBest
The Reds “Bandwagon Cubs Fan Cam” with subtitles was one of the funniest things I’ve seen at a ballpark.
OldishCubsFan
Congrats on the dumbest comment in the history of sports. I’ve been a Cubs fan for 48 years and I sure as ____ don’t remember the names of potential draftees not named Bryant. But then, some of us have real stuff to do. It’s called life.
thegreatcerealfamine
His point exactly!
chesteraarthur
So you have time to read and comment on an article on may 1st, but you are too busy to read about your teams potential top 10 draft picks? Convenient timing for that stuff and life to crop up…
amishthunderak
That’s amazing, because the whole world knew at #2 the Cubs would take whichever of the two pitchers that the Astros didn’t take at #1, with those being Mark Appel and Jon Gray. Then they shocked the whole baseball world by picking Bryant.
amishthunderak
I can read about my teams possible picks today and forget all about them after the draft. They aren’t on my favorite team so they are dead to me.
Cubguy13
Yeah you could only be a “Cubs fan” if you pay attention to the draft. Wasn’t aware of that rule
alexgordonbeckham
Wouldn’t have gotten that far as the team who drafted next, the White Sox, were really high on him and would have taken him. But Benintendi was taken a pick before the Sox pick.
dstuart
Being a Hog fan I watched Benintendi every game in college. I was hoping he’d fall to the Giants but I thought that was a pipe dream. My only hope was comparing Trout falling all the way to 25. Dude will be a stud for years
tharrie0820
It usually seems like only high school players drop like that. Good, polished college players rarely fall that far
pplama
Benintendi not really a “what if” story for the Cubs. As he was also rumored to be #1 on the White Sox board. They’d have snatched him up with pick #8.
ronabuelo
This. Most teams I’m sure had him on the their draft board. Non-story
nysoxsam
These what ifs probably happen more than people think. I guess it’s fodder for an article but not much more. If the Cubs tried to move up in the draft that would be a real story. Traded to move up in baseball drafts don’t seem to happen often like in other sports.
mahoney
That’s because MLB doesn’t allow trading of picks, so it actually never happens.
Ilikesox
Lmao
Steven P.
Benintendi would not have made it past the White Sox at #8 overall, so this article is pretty pointless
ReverieDays
Like the majority of stuff guys write about.
66TheNumberOfTheBest
If he’s drafted before you even pick, he’s not exactly “the one who got away.”
The Pirates passed on Trout because Tony Sanchez cut an under slot deal before the draft. THAT is the one who got away.
The Pirates passed on Matt Wieters because McClatchy was so cheap they used a #4 pick on a relief pitcher. (Not a SP who later became a RP, btw, a college reliever) THAT is the one who got away.
The Pirates used a #2 pick on Jameson Taillon (who I absolutely love) but #3 was Manny Machado. THAT….yeah.
Orioles fans should be glad I wasn’t randomly named the GM of the Pirates for no good reason in the mid 00’s, they’d have only seen Wieters and Machado in a few road games.
tylerall5
Tony Sanchez… oh the agony.
66TheNumberOfTheBest
The Tony Sanchez pick was (seemingly) necessary because they passed on Wieters.
Who knows, if they drafted Wieters over Moskos…maybe they would have ended up with Trout, too?
Wieters, Trout and McCutchen on the same team.
chesteraarthur
I thought Taillon and Machado were pretty similarly value @ the time of the draft?
66TheNumberOfTheBest
I was really out of watching baseball at that point, so I knew very little about either, I just felt like a power hitting short stop is such a rare (at the time) commodity, you have to take him.
Ironically now that I know a lot more and follow it more closely, I actually agree with what the Pirates did as it’s their only chance to get TOR starters.
So, I would have made the right choice out of ignorance.
None of this is to bash Taillon, who is great and whose injuries have actually helped the Pirates as he’ll be under club control for his entire prime.
Ry.the.Stunner
One of these is not like the others.
Mikel Grady
Cubs didn’t tank very well that year . Had a hot streak at end of year or would have had him. Happ is no slouch and time will tell.