Source: mlb.sbnation.com – Monday, June 04, 2012
The Pittsburgh Pirates are looking to overcome a horror-filled draft history in this week's First-Year Player Draft. In 2005, the baseball gods hired a new intern, Reggie. He was a nice enough kid. Dumb as an aluminum can, but nice enough. His dad knew one of the baseball gods from way back — working at a law firm, or something. And on a lazy Friday, Reggie had one task: to deliver a stack of dossiers from the office of one baseball god to another. He stopped along the way, ate a candy bar, and smudged chocolate on one of the dossiers. As he was frantically trying to clean it off, he inadvertently swapped the profile of Andrew McCutchen with Wade Townsend's . That's the completely true story of how the Pittsburgh Pirates ended up with Andrew McCutchen instead of Wade Townsend, who was easily the Piratesest prospect in the 2005 draft. Tons of promise, and an arm that wouldn't would cooperate. If Reggie hadn't been so incompetent, the baseball gods would have figured out a way for Townsend to slip to the 11th-overall pick. As is, McCutchen was easily the best Pirates draft choice of the last two decades. The draft is supposed to help a team that perennially finishes under .500, but the Pirates have had a miserable time. Last year's first-overall pick, Gerrit Cole , is doing well in high-A this year , as is 2010 first-rounder Jameson Taillon . So maybe a new era is about to be ushered in, where Pirates first-round picks do what they
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