Reyes and Walker.C-Unit wrote: ↑01 Oct 2025 15:47 pm I'm gonna make a list of players, who may or may not be considered "busts" based on how you define the word. I want you to compare each name to the wildest rose colored glasses view you ever had of said name. Which scenario would have made the biggest difference on the franchise over the last 10 years?
Carlos Martinez
Alex Reyes
Dylan Carlson
Nolan Gorman
Jordan Walker
For me it's a tie between either of the pitchers (Carlos Martinez becoming Pedro Jr or Alex Reyes throwing 200 innings and striking out 300), and Dylan Carlson if he had become more like the last switch-hitting rightfielder that wore #3 (the potential for a 20/30 high on-base switch-hitting centerfielder would have pretty impactful... especially in those lineups that had Goldschmidt and N. Arenado performing still at their best).
Feel free to throw out another name but I'm not talking about the Aledmys Diaz's of the world this is about former high-ranked prospects that were seen as future organization mainstays. We all know about the Taveras one, let's start after that.
They had the highest ceilings and were hyped to be cornerstones.
Martinez was disappointing but the team still got some good production out of him. I never thought giving him that contract was a good idea.
I was never high on Carlson. I just didn't see what others thought they saw. Good defender but can't hit enough.