I said the pick was a disaster from day 1, which it was. Say whatever you want about his ho-hum debut performance, but that pick sucked from the moment it was made.
I can't take any credit for Wacha, but Giolito was pretty obvious. We all knew it.As for Michael Wacha - yeah, lots of you wanted to pick him. What you didn't know at the time was that he couldn't pass his physical. If you knew that at the time, I wonder how many of you would have said "draft him anyways". I'm betting it wouldn't be too many of you who are still years later bringing it up at every given chance you've got.
Giolito - everyone knew he was hurt, so if you backed that pick, good job. But also realize that he cost $1M more to sign than Travieso did. And that maybe that money wasn't available to the Reds. Maybe it was. I don't know what was going on in the room at the time - but it's not exactly an apples to apples comparison either.
Finally, for those who are freaking out over Ty Stepehenson, I'd actually say that there's a different first rounder who's hitting performance is giving me heartburn so far in this first month: Alex Blandino's .103 batting average in Pensacola. Let's hope the small sample size is meaningless (I'm not freaking out), but if not, this could be yet another black eye for Buckley and Co.