Phillies’ buying their way to Mediocrity!!

[DavidGee24]

UMMM who do you think is responsible for hiring the scouting personnel.......

True, and even if he didn't hire them he didn't fire them.

[Donn Beach]

he didn't have a first round pick in two of those drafts, and in 2012 he didn't have a second round pick either

[Donn Beach]

here is a review of Angels drafts, just came out last week, doesn't think much of Dipoto and his scouting director

Ric Wilson 2011-2016
Tony Reagins brought in Ric Wilson to replace Bane for the 2011 season and Jerry Dipoto kept him on when he took over as GM going into 2012. We all remember Wilson as the guy who was dancing in the draft room with Dipoto in 2015 when they figured out that Taylor Ward would be available to draft (2 rounds too early).

Wilson oversaw some truly terrible drafts at a time when the Angels desperately needed to have an influx of talent to offset the losses of Tony Reagins and Dipotos insatiable appetite for trades. Instead, we saw the selections of CJ Cron, RJ Alvarez, Hunter Green, Sean Newcomb, Taylor Ward and Matt Thaiss. Not only did Wilson miss with his first round selections, he also failed to identify late round talent with David Fletcher emerging as the only later round selection of any note from under his drafts. It's notable that Wilson's lone prospect to ever make a top 100 list was Sean Newcomb. He was really terrible.

Finally, I do want to point out that the Eppler Swanson duo has some very interesting tendencies that appear to be paying off. Where we saw Bane go all in on "toolsy" prep players and Wilson going for.... who knows what? He really was awful at his job... Like just remarkably bad. It really is depressing to look at how terrible he was at identifying talent. I mean, all this guy had to do what just copy the damn draft order published on 5 different websites and the team would have been so much better off. Instead he's jumping for joy for over-drafting Taylor Freaking Ward in the first round. What the hell? In any case, as I was saying...

https://www.halosheaven.com/2019/6/21/1 ... d-analysis