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Originally Posted by Strange Brew
8th ranked prospect seems OK to me. I wonder if Hernandez was ever rated that highly with the Astros?
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Baseball prospect rankings might be the most inexact science in North American Professional sports.
In 2021 Jared Kelinic was the Mariners top prospect and one of the top guys in Baseball ahead of Julio Rodriguez. How does that look today?
I remember when the Blue Jays traded Scott Rolen to the Reds and initially people thought the Jay's were going to get Yonder Alonso and the sentiment was that they were all Randy Marsh after encountering a spooky ghost...well when the trade came out with Edwin Encarnacion as the piece....there was a collective groan "E5 sucks how horrible is this". He'll never supplement our elite young core of Hill, Lind, and Snyder. Well of those 4 guys who ended up being the best Blue Jay? Was Alonso ever much more than average outside of the 2017 seson?
As you say no one in Houston batted an eye when they moved Hernandez...and he may never have emerged in that system either.