Re: Best Cardinal 1st round pick?
Posted: 25 Dec 2025 22:33 pm
Semantics and boring. Who are they? What do you mean by behavior specifically? Who is everyone? How do you know what I would do, Captain mind reader? What specific trade in what thread and time?Do you know what coveting means? It means the desire to have something. The impressive thing is is how you can read people’s minds and thoughts and know what they’re saying even if it’s not what they said.AnExParrot wrote: ↑25 Dec 2025 19:16 pmIt's Captain Obvious level stuff - yes, everyone knows you never know who's going to make it and who's going to fall on their face.Cardinals1964 wrote: ↑25 Dec 2025 15:34 pmI like how you use the words no one and everyone to make your opinion a fact. Some are coveting top prospects from other organizations. And not everyone on this board literally knows that they don’t know who’s going to make it.AnExParrot wrote: ↑25 Dec 2025 14:53 pmNo one is coveting prospects. Not mattmitch, not crav, not hugeCardfan, not Talkin'Baseball - none of them. They talk about them because they play baseball in the Cardinals organization, or they'd like to see them in the Cardinals organization. That the team, at this point, needs tons of spaghetti to throw at the wall to see what sticks is actually supported by "all prospects are suspects until they do something." In WW II the US and Allies dropped so many bombs because we missed by A LOT, A LOT of the time. Same thing here, gather as many prospects as you can because the failure rate is so high.Cardinals1964 wrote: ↑25 Dec 2025 14:33 pmI thought it was obvious. I keep seeing people complaining about the prospects that Bloom is getting. Then I see others that covet certain prospects. The fact is, you don’t know who is going to do what. Yes, JJ at this point has a better chance of being good than others on the Cardinals prospect list. Two years ago Tink Hence had the best chance of doing something. Not too long age Jordan Walker was the future. Remember Dillon Carlson?AnExParrot wrote: ↑25 Dec 2025 14:05 pmOh, so Capt. Obvious level stuff.Cardinals1964 wrote: ↑25 Dec 2025 13:05 pmCardinals best pick came in 1967. So, they’ve had the longest drought. Since 2010 they are average. But, once again, the point is missed. You don’t know which 18-year-old will be great and which 18-year-old won’t. Until they do something.AnExParrot wrote: ↑25 Dec 2025 03:37 amIs that better, worse, or about the same as other teams?Cardinals1964 wrote: ↑25 Dec 2025 02:06 am27 years. My point is 1sr round or 3rd round or 5th round doesn’t make much difference until they perform.An Old Friend wrote: ↑24 Dec 2025 09:41 amJD Drew is the pretty easy choice.Cardinals1964 wrote: ↑22 Dec 2025 00:10 am When is the last time the Cardinals had a truly great 1st round pick. I’ll go with Ted Simmons. Who’s your choice?
Look at Tink Hence. He was our second prospect in 2024. Now he 14th. Until they do something they are more suspect than prospect.
The point wasn't missed, the point needs more context than, "prospects are suspects until they do something."
Nobody knows.
And literally everyone on this board knows, you never know who's going to make it, and who's going to fall on their face. Seasoned scouts had such a bad failure rate teams went looking for better ways to figure it out - enter the dreaded "stat nerd" to try to quantify all that is quantifiable. And the jury is still out, but they're getting similar results to the eye tests of seasoned scouts, at this point.
Show me who's coveting prospects? Give me examples of what you consider covetous behavior. If you had any you'd have already posted them. They are talking about players they'd like in a specific trade, if that is coveting then there simply can't be any talk of trades, by your standard, that isn't considered coveting. FFS.
If only we had Connor Griffin. I covet him. I’d trade Pozo for him.
I want Seattles top prospects. I covet them.
