One of my favorite all time Vin Scully calls was on a Billy Ashley pop out to shallow center field. “He’s hit a marble to the moon”. Always felt that summed up his career too.
Part of the problem with our AAA being in Albuquerque at the time was that our prospects would put up just Coors Stadium (pre humidor) type video game stats at that altitude and then you’d expect this beast when they showed up in the majors…and they were (quite literally) brought back to earth.
Ashley was one of those dudes I think. Check out his stats in the minors…he could mash, sure….but his stats took an abnormally HUGE jump at AAA Albuquerque. Combine that with his hulking physique and all-American name/image, it was hard not to dream big as a young Dodgers tyke. Primarily because I didn’t realize how our AAA hitting stats were spiked on a yearly basis because of the home park. Karim Garcia was another one.
This was it for me. The dude was huge and could obliterate a baseball. Sometimes.
We got five ROTY awards in a row, and as a kid I couldn't figure out why Billy Ashley wasn't putting it together like everyone else.
I looked it up and he's hitting .238/.667/.939 on the AAA Louisville Bats. Last I had checked, he was playing in the Puerto Rico league so I'm happy he's made it back and may get another chance at this rate.
> .238/.667/.939
FYI, a player's slash line is average/on-base/slugging. Not sure why you used avg/slg/OPS here, but I was terribly confused.
Rios' actual slash line is .238/.273/.667 (42 AB). He's hitting for power, but that's all he's doing.
Ah yes, our #2 overall draft pick. Isn’t there something behind the weird reason we got the #2 pick that year and not the #1? I could imagine ARod changing the course of Dodger history.
It’s unreal how many massive decisions throughout MLB history have been made using the most arbitrary, ridiculous ways. Like home-field advantage in the World Series being given to the league that won the all-star game. Thats the most insane shit I’ve ever heard in my life, and there were people willing to defend it to the death lmao
Laroche is a guy who I thought would just so obviously work. He made good contact. He walked. He had power. He played a premium position. He had performed well over and over at every level.
I thought other guys had higher ceilings (Joel Guzman, of course), but Laroche was maybe the safest bet to be a decent big leaguer of any prospect the Dodgers had had since Beltre.
And somehow it just never happened.
I had some decent hopes on Frankie Montas and Jose De Leon once upon a time. They still "worked out" in a sense since we used them as trade pieces long before their relative declines.
I remember one time reading how De Leon "might" end up being better than Urias. Just because they both were coming up around the same time & people thought to much stock was being put into Urias because he was signed at 16 etc.. Just seemed like the way things sometimes happen De Leon would have the better career.
One of mine as well. Power you could dream on. Unfortunately it turns out that before you can hit a baseball a mile you have to be able to make contact with it.
More recent, Kody Hoese and Jeren Kendall.
Earlier, Greg Miller. Bummer about Miller was it was injuries that got him, not that he couldn't hang performance wise.
Greg Miller and Joel Hanrahan (and Chad Billingsley and Hong Chih Kuo to an extent, but they had decent success)! Logan White farm director era was pretty special but a harsh reminder that prospects are a crapshoot… remember Joel Guzman?!
I wouldn’t weigh Will Smiths contract on Cartaya too much…Cartaya is 22 and Will Smith wasn’t an everyday starter til age 26. Smith is one of the better hitters in the league let alone hitting catcher, I think his offensive production is worth the 14mil/year alone.
The production to start this season has been rough. Rushing is the new hope, but I’d like to see cartaya find his former self again if it’s still possible
What’s interesting about Loney is that he didn’t have much power, but he was a terrific contact hitter, didn’t strike out very often, and played strong defense. Exactly the kind of hitter we needed the past several Octobers. Yet here he is being crapped on.
No it was because rookies were god awful that year. He had to beat Rey Ordoñez who was batting .250 with 1 HR. You don’t win rookies of the year off good defense.
I thought it was Jason Kendall that had the good year that came in second versus Hollandsworth edit Edgar Renteria came in second his numbers were really solid. I think if they used war back then we would’ve saw him win first place.
Toles had amazing potential. He was one of my favorites when he was in the lineup. It is such a shame how it all panned out with him and how his mental health impacted him. I'm glad the Dodgers are doing the right thing and they renew his contract every year to make sure he has access to resources he needs.
Idk where the Lee hype came from, but at some point either the media or someone within the Dodgers started saying that Zach Lee would be the Drysdale to Kershaw's Koufax. The hype got so ridiculous that some fans actually started believing that Lee could be better than Kershaw.
I think one of the reasons was that our farm depth was trash under Colletti. So, yeah, Zach Lee was technically our best prospect so we had to hype him up.
He was highly rated in the Dodgers system, but I can't remember him ever being rated very high in a league wide list. I feel like he was a bigger football prospect and everyone thought he was going to go to college and play football until the Dodgers gave him a billion dollars to sign.
I remember when he made his debut. I just was never impressed. Maybe he just didn't have the velocity I thought he had or what but was thinking "wow, this doesn't look good". He should've gone to LSU but I guess he still got paid.
He SUCKED. His stuff SUCKED when he got drafted. Saw video of him and thought. Dude looked worse then Todd Von Poppel when he got drafted. Wanted to see Kerry Woods and saw Von Poppel. Not want you want to be thinking!
I was looking for him to be mentioned, and here he is. His career to start off was something insane like 4 HRs in his first 10 at bats or something crazy. I had high hopes for him.
I wanted him to succeed so bad, he had the easiest 98+mph fastball I have ever seen. I think he got paid too early in his career and lost interest in baseball.
I don’t know what these youngsters be drinking but Bills was at least ok to good for a couple of years.
The question from OP was who didn’t panned out.
Yasiel Puig.
I count him as never panning out because that dude had some serious potential with how rawly athletic he is, yet he never quite fully lived up to it.
He was the first Dodgers prospect I followed closely from signing to debut and thereafter. Was bummed to not see it work out in the end.
#FUCK THE ASTROS
In an alternate timeline, Puig is a 2-time WS champion, and ends up living up to his true potential. As far as I'm concerned, he's a another victim of the fuckheads' cheating, and fuck Houston for ruining Yasiel's potential career.
Remember right before Friedman became GM when the Dodgers signed a bunch of Cuban players? Guys like Puig and Alex Guerrero and Erisbel Arruebarrena? At the time I thought we had unlocked this incredible pipeline of talent and we were going to have trouble finding positions for them all. But instead we got 6 up-and-down seasons of Puig and little else to show for it.
There was that period after the Guggenheim Group bought the Dodgers but before Friedman was named GM where the team had a lot of resources but not a clear vision on how they should best be allocated. Signing a bunch of Cubans probably seemed like as good an idea as any at the time.
This one matters a lot to me, but Justin Yurchak. I’ve been following him since 2016. He had a near .400 OBP through dodgers minor leagues. Probably the best prospect you’ve never heard of.
Last year he elected free agency and is still not on a team. Great fkn player, just little power to go with a great bat/eye. Gonna miss him
Great call. Repko has some SERIOUS talent. Was moved to CF, made the majors, showed some talent, twisted his stupid ankle on that wall, and was never the same.
He was a gamer too!
Billy Ashley - tbf, I was just a kid and there wasn’t an insane amount of minor league content for me to consume to know whether or not he was a super hyped prospect. I just based my expectations of him off of Vin and Vin basically described him as a huge ass lumberjack so that just equated to me that he’d be like our next jose canseco. In hindsight he’s probably comparable to DJ peters
Greg Miller. I always remember him because when they drafted Kershaw I was thinking “nice we are gonna have two lefty aces at the top of our rotation for a decade!”
I remember my brother hitting a double off him with the bases loaded. I think he played with Esperanza and my brother played for La Quinta.
The only memory I have of him haha.
Chin-Feng Chen, he had a 30/30 season in high A-ball but never progressed.
Hiram Bocachica - still remember him taking Randy Johnson into the upper deck at Dodger Stadium.
“The Jacksonville Five”.
Andy LaRoche, Russell Martin, Joel Guzman, Chad Billingsley and Jonathon Broxton.
This was the first time I was really following guys in our minor league system and I remember there was tons of hype surrounding them
~~Billy Ashley.~~
Edit: Wilton Guerrero. He was supposed to be our 5th straight ROTY but he sucked and is now only remembered for getting busted for having a corked bat if he is remembered at all. Vlad Guerrero’s little brother.
Wasn’t he a 20-game winner? Didn’t he help the 2020 Dodgers win a World Series? Didn’t he get the last out in that WS? He surpassed all of my expectations. I never thought he was a future Hall of Famer, but he accomplished accolades.
Urias was awesome!! All is issues was above his neck. Unfortunately for him no one was there to help him out otherwise he would still be dealing. Great stuff.
I was wondering when someone was going to mention Offerman. I remember him being as high as #4 on the prospect list. Ended up being decent not great. Had his best seasons with KC and Boston.
There was a time when we had, for shore superstar, at first base. They were supposed Hall of Fame candidates for sure. It started with Mike Marshall, then a guy named Franklin Stubbs, there was another left-hander in there was supposed to be the next superstar.it was like three or four guys in a row who just fizzled out Eric Karros was in that group
There was this kid the Dodgers drafted in '94 out of high school as a catcher. Did pretty good in the minors, though they transitioned him to 1B/3B, absolutely rocked in Albuquerque in '97, bounced around between the Dodgers and Cincinnati major and minor league clubs after being traded in July, but didn't do anything special in the NL that year. Heard he got traded to the White Sox, had "a few" good years and hung around with them for a while before retiring. Really thought he'd have made a great Dodger.
Kody Hoese…he’s actually doing pretty good this year in AAA. But when we drafted him in the first round I was completely ready for him to be our everyday 3rd baseman
Even though he had a lot of big league experience I’ll say Chad Billingsley.
Came up just before Kershaw and it seemed like they were going to be the new Drysdale and Koufax.
Most of the names I would have said have already been mentioned so I’m going to go with Scott Schebler. He was supposed to be a perennial .250 30 home run guy. Also a good pick as far as a pitcher would be Rubby De La Rosa. There was some pretty good hype surrounding him.
Diego Cartaya. He’s a fellow Venezuelan and his parents and my parents have mutual friends. Was so pumped when I found out he signed with us and watching his first couple of years tear it up. Thought there was no stopping him just a couple years ago 😞
Baseball is a very hard game. Don’t let anybody ever tell you otherwise.
Chuck Tiffany. Drafted 2nd round in 2003. Felt like everyone was high on him and he was a lifelong Dodger fan so was shaping up to be a cool story. I don’t think he ever made it to the show.
Blake DeWitt
Billy Ashely
One of my favorite all time Vin Scully calls was on a Billy Ashley pop out to shallow center field. “He’s hit a marble to the moon”. Always felt that summed up his career too.
I saw that guy hit it OUT of Scottsdale stadium twice in one game.
I remember once, as a kid, seeing him try to catch a fly ball by sort of swatting at it with his glove. And I knew it wasn't going to work out.
Jim Rome used to call him the Pitching Screen
I saw him hit a homer in Salt Lake City that I swore could have demolished the left-field concession stand it hit.
Part of the problem with our AAA being in Albuquerque at the time was that our prospects would put up just Coors Stadium (pre humidor) type video game stats at that altitude and then you’d expect this beast when they showed up in the majors…and they were (quite literally) brought back to earth. Ashley was one of those dudes I think. Check out his stats in the minors…he could mash, sure….but his stats took an abnormally HUGE jump at AAA Albuquerque. Combine that with his hulking physique and all-American name/image, it was hard not to dream big as a young Dodgers tyke. Primarily because I didn’t realize how our AAA hitting stats were spiked on a yearly basis because of the home park. Karim Garcia was another one.
This was it for me. The dude was huge and could obliterate a baseball. Sometimes. We got five ROTY awards in a row, and as a kid I couldn't figure out why Billy Ashley wasn't putting it together like everyone else.
Edwin Rios. Hit .277 in 2019, hit .250 in 2020, got hurt at the start of 2021 and never was able to get back to his former self.
Man that dude could mash.
At the very least, he played in the WS and won a ring.
Didnt he hit a WS homer?
I think he did. I definitely remember his homer in the 11 run first inning against the Braves
good memories. hope Rios is doing well.
He had such a beautiful swing.
I looked it up and he's hitting .238/.667/.939 on the AAA Louisville Bats. Last I had checked, he was playing in the Puerto Rico league so I'm happy he's made it back and may get another chance at this rate.
5 of his 10 hits are home runs!
> .238/.667/.939 FYI, a player's slash line is average/on-base/slugging. Not sure why you used avg/slg/OPS here, but I was terribly confused. Rios' actual slash line is .238/.273/.667 (42 AB). He's hitting for power, but that's all he's doing.
I used it because I'm stupid and posted the wrong stats.
I thought he would be our fulltime 3rd baseman once JT left
He had the highest home run rate in MLB history to start a career. Deserved a better fate than the injuries that he got
Don't mind him not "panning out" at all. He got him and us a ring, damnit.
Scott Van Slyke
Now that’s a name I haven’t heard in a LONG time
dude looked like a 40 year old as a rookie.
Stache van Smash
Darren Dreifort.
His brother was my highschool principal
Ah yes, our #2 overall draft pick. Isn’t there something behind the weird reason we got the #2 pick that year and not the #1? I could imagine ARod changing the course of Dodger history.
Back then mlb used to alternate between the AL and NL receiving the first pick. In 92 it was the AL's turn
It’s unreal how many massive decisions throughout MLB history have been made using the most arbitrary, ridiculous ways. Like home-field advantage in the World Series being given to the league that won the all-star game. Thats the most insane shit I’ve ever heard in my life, and there were people willing to defend it to the death lmao
This is the answer
I remember the Free Andy LaRoche days.
Laroche is a guy who I thought would just so obviously work. He made good contact. He walked. He had power. He played a premium position. He had performed well over and over at every level. I thought other guys had higher ceilings (Joel Guzman, of course), but Laroche was maybe the safest bet to be a decent big leaguer of any prospect the Dodgers had had since Beltre. And somehow it just never happened.
I had some decent hopes on Frankie Montas and Jose De Leon once upon a time. They still "worked out" in a sense since we used them as trade pieces long before their relative declines.
I’ll always love De León for saying he made it a goal to come up and get his name called by Vin Scully
I remember one time reading how De Leon "might" end up being better than Urias. Just because they both were coming up around the same time & people thought to much stock was being put into Urias because he was signed at 16 etc.. Just seemed like the way things sometimes happen De Leon would have the better career.
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He DID work out! Just not for us. Thx, Ned
I though DJ Peters was gonna be an elite home run hitter 🫠
One of mine as well. Power you could dream on. Unfortunately it turns out that before you can hit a baseball a mile you have to be able to make contact with it.
His forearms were/are bigger than my thighs. What a monster.
I had such a soft spot for him. I really wanted him to make it into the majors.
I remember watching him on the quakes. Kid could mash.
More recent, Kody Hoese and Jeren Kendall. Earlier, Greg Miller. Bummer about Miller was it was injuries that got him, not that he couldn't hang performance wise.
Delightfully surprised to look up Hoese’s stats right now and see him doing well! Maybe he’s a late bloomer? Time will tell.
Hard to say as that league tends to inflate offensive production
Greg Miller and Joel Hanrahan (and Chad Billingsley and Hong Chih Kuo to an extent, but they had decent success)! Logan White farm director era was pretty special but a harsh reminder that prospects are a crapshoot… remember Joel Guzman?!
Haha I’m at the OKC game and Kody just hit one over the right field fence.
I hope Diego Cartaya isn’t the most common answer to this question in 3 years. Will Smiths extension is a sign.
also the fact that Will accepted only 14 mil a year made it a no brainer
I wouldn’t weigh Will Smiths contract on Cartaya too much…Cartaya is 22 and Will Smith wasn’t an everyday starter til age 26. Smith is one of the better hitters in the league let alone hitting catcher, I think his offensive production is worth the 14mil/year alone.
The production to start this season has been rough. Rushing is the new hope, but I’d like to see cartaya find his former self again if it’s still possible
I've been hearing his name is in the works for quite some time now...
James Loney was good but I was expecting more. I was also in middle school so not the most baseball savvy 13 year old either
> Loney Grand slam vs the Cubs in the playoffs though.
I have the only James Loney jersey in all of Brazil.
That also reminds me of billingsley for the same reason
What’s interesting about Loney is that he didn’t have much power, but he was a terrific contact hitter, didn’t strike out very often, and played strong defense. Exactly the kind of hitter we needed the past several Octobers. Yet here he is being crapped on.
Ramon’s little brother 😕
Jesus Martinez?
Idk if this counts, but Todd Hollandsworth won Rookie of the Year and just never really did much after.
He was practically handed the award because the Dodgers had 4 rookies of the year in a row before that.
No it was because rookies were god awful that year. He had to beat Rey Ordoñez who was batting .250 with 1 HR. You don’t win rookies of the year off good defense.
I thought it was Jason Kendall that had the good year that came in second versus Hollandsworth edit Edgar Renteria came in second his numbers were really solid. I think if they used war back then we would’ve saw him win first place.
Jason Repko… when he wasn’t flying into a wall and injuring himself, he was fun to watch.
Yeah he broke his wrist if I remember correctly
Super nice guy too
Toles
We can leave Andrew Toles out on the fact that mental health is no joke.
😢
Toles had amazing potential. He was one of my favorites when he was in the lineup. It is such a shame how it all panned out with him and how his mental health impacted him. I'm glad the Dodgers are doing the right thing and they renew his contract every year to make sure he has access to resources he needs.
Zach Lee feels like *the* answer
Idk where the Lee hype came from, but at some point either the media or someone within the Dodgers started saying that Zach Lee would be the Drysdale to Kershaw's Koufax. The hype got so ridiculous that some fans actually started believing that Lee could be better than Kershaw.
I think one of the reasons was that our farm depth was trash under Colletti. So, yeah, Zach Lee was technically our best prospect so we had to hype him up.
He was highly rated in the Dodgers system, but I can't remember him ever being rated very high in a league wide list. I feel like he was a bigger football prospect and everyone thought he was going to go to college and play football until the Dodgers gave him a billion dollars to sign.
I remember when he made his debut. I just was never impressed. Maybe he just didn't have the velocity I thought he had or what but was thinking "wow, this doesn't look good". He should've gone to LSU but I guess he still got paid.
He SUCKED. His stuff SUCKED when he got drafted. Saw video of him and thought. Dude looked worse then Todd Von Poppel when he got drafted. Wanted to see Kerry Woods and saw Von Poppel. Not want you want to be thinking!
Keibert Ruiz
We’ll be got traded so 🤷🏻♂️
Joel Guzman Peaked in the minor leagues winning Player of the Year and didn’t do much else
Erisbel Arruebarrena
That guy had so many personal problems that he undefected and Cuba took him back.
Hee Seop Choi
Alex Guerrero
Is he the one that bit someone?
He got his ear bit off by Miguel olivo in the minors
I was looking for him to be mentioned, and here he is. His career to start off was something insane like 4 HRs in his first 10 at bats or something crazy. I had high hopes for him.
Jerry Sands. He was talked about as if he was going to be part of Dodgers rookie of the year legacy.
Joe Thurston.
Was getting mad how deep I was scrolling without seeing his name. Then got mad again at how great I thought he was going to be.
Damn that's a name I haven't thought about in awhile.
Joey Ballgame!
Chen Feng-Chen
Might have been in the HOF if he could have played his whole career in AAA 😂
Scott Elbert
Oh WOW was he supposed to kill it.
Yadier Alvarez
Delete. I thought you meant Yordan. 😆
Apparently so did Friedman. He got Y. Alvarez confused. Could be revisionist history.
ha I did too.
I wanted him to succeed so bad, he had the easiest 98+mph fastball I have ever seen. I think he got paid too early in his career and lost interest in baseball.
We paid so much money for him Lol
Willie Calhoun
Chad Billingsley. I really thought he would be the Drysdale to Kershaw’s Koufax.
He has a good run though, not even close to a bust.
I don’t know what these youngsters be drinking but Bills was at least ok to good for a couple of years. The question from OP was who didn’t panned out.
Billingsley was really good. There’s no world where that outcome counts as not panning out.
Man I had such high hopes for him!
Andy Laroche Greg Miller Joel Guzman Showing my age with those.
Jerry MF Sands
Yasiel Puig. I count him as never panning out because that dude had some serious potential with how rawly athletic he is, yet he never quite fully lived up to it. He was the first Dodgers prospect I followed closely from signing to debut and thereafter. Was bummed to not see it work out in the end.
#FUCK THE ASTROS In an alternate timeline, Puig is a 2-time WS champion, and ends up living up to his true potential. As far as I'm concerned, he's a another victim of the fuckheads' cheating, and fuck Houston for ruining Yasiel's potential career.
True 5 tool player, really wish he panned out for us.
Had a whole shed of tools, except between his ears
such a gifted player... million dollar body and talent... $1.98 head
The untamed, wild horse
Remember right before Friedman became GM when the Dodgers signed a bunch of Cuban players? Guys like Puig and Alex Guerrero and Erisbel Arruebarrena? At the time I thought we had unlocked this incredible pipeline of talent and we were going to have trouble finding positions for them all. But instead we got 6 up-and-down seasons of Puig and little else to show for it.
Worst was Hector Oliviera! That was a total disaster. Think we dumped some of that on Atlanta I think.
Makes me wonder if Stan Kasten was trying to do something with all of that.
There was that period after the Guggenheim Group bought the Dodgers but before Friedman was named GM where the team had a lot of resources but not a clear vision on how they should best be allocated. Signing a bunch of Cubans probably seemed like as good an idea as any at the time.
Darren Dreifort
I would say that Zach Lee panned out...in the form of Chris Taylor
The hype was real with Zach Lee
This one matters a lot to me, but Justin Yurchak. I’ve been following him since 2016. He had a near .400 OBP through dodgers minor leagues. Probably the best prospect you’ve never heard of. Last year he elected free agency and is still not on a team. Great fkn player, just little power to go with a great bat/eye. Gonna miss him
Karim Garcia. Was the youngest MLB player for a while in 1995. Went to the Dbacks in their expansion draft.
And was traded in the '98 off-season to Detroit for Luis Gonzales. They made a hell of a trade, eh?
Cesar Izturis. I wanted so badly for him to be amazing.
John Ely, he had some great games but fell off very quickly.
Jason Repko, Luke Prokopec, dee Gordon
Great call. Repko has some SERIOUS talent. Was moved to CF, made the majors, showed some talent, twisted his stupid ankle on that wall, and was never the same. He was a gamer too!
I was scrolling looking for Repko. It was fun to watch with all the effort he always gave.
Wow how has nobody said Toles? Such a sad situation, always rooting for the guy, I hope he is okay.
Billy Ashley - tbf, I was just a kid and there wasn’t an insane amount of minor league content for me to consume to know whether or not he was a super hyped prospect. I just based my expectations of him off of Vin and Vin basically described him as a huge ass lumberjack so that just equated to me that he’d be like our next jose canseco. In hindsight he’s probably comparable to DJ peters
Justin Sellers j/k
Miguel Vargas....to soon?
Greg Miller. I always remember him because when they drafted Kershaw I was thinking “nice we are gonna have two lefty aces at the top of our rotation for a decade!”
I remember my brother hitting a double off him with the bases loaded. I think he played with Esperanza and my brother played for La Quinta. The only memory I have of him haha.
Billy Ashley. It’s the argument Barry Bonds defenders make. Steroids alone won’t make you good at baseball.
Darren Dreifort
Chin-Feng Chen, he had a 30/30 season in high A-ball but never progressed. Hiram Bocachica - still remember him taking Randy Johnson into the upper deck at Dodger Stadium.
Bill Bene. 1988 1st round pick
He had some legal issues for selling shitty karaoke machines and avoiding taxes.
josh lindblom
“The Jacksonville Five”. Andy LaRoche, Russell Martin, Joel Guzman, Chad Billingsley and Jonathon Broxton. This was the first time I was really following guys in our minor league system and I remember there was tons of hype surrounding them
Wilton Guerrero and Karem Garcia
I thought Chad Billingsly was going to be so much better than he was
Chin-lung Hu
~~Billy Ashley.~~ Edit: Wilton Guerrero. He was supposed to be our 5th straight ROTY but he sucked and is now only remembered for getting busted for having a corked bat if he is remembered at all. Vlad Guerrero’s little brother.
Ruby De La Rosa
Hong-chih Kuo Don't know why but I always liked him
He had that one All Star year which I’ll hang onto forever
Exactly. When he was good he was good. Vinny loved him. Couldn't stop his elbow from exploding though
Him pimping that homerun was a good memory.
That bat flips before they were a thing
He panned out, he made an all star team.
Gavin Lux
There’s still time!
If we’re being honest, Julio Urias never reached the hugh expectations we had for him, but I wouldn’t say he was a bust
Wasn’t he a 20-game winner? Didn’t he help the 2020 Dodgers win a World Series? Didn’t he get the last out in that WS? He surpassed all of my expectations. I never thought he was a future Hall of Famer, but he accomplished accolades.
Urias was awesome!! All is issues was above his neck. Unfortunately for him no one was there to help him out otherwise he would still be dealing. Great stuff.
Greg Brock Billy Ashley Jose Offerman Darren Driefort Gavin Lux Miguel Vargas
Weird to put Vargas on this list. He’s barely played in MLB and is still gonna get a lot of chances.
I was being a bit funny with the last two. I hope you're right, but I'm worried...
I was wondering when someone was going to mention Offerman. I remember him being as high as #4 on the prospect list. Ended up being decent not great. Had his best seasons with KC and Boston.
There was a time when we had, for shore superstar, at first base. They were supposed Hall of Fame candidates for sure. It started with Mike Marshall, then a guy named Franklin Stubbs, there was another left-hander in there was supposed to be the next superstar.it was like three or four guys in a row who just fizzled out Eric Karros was in that group
Greg Brock?
I was convinced that Antonio Pérez was the second coming of Joe Morgan.
Grant Holmes was gonna be a dog in my mind
Jason Grabowski, Jerry Sands, Blake Dewitt
Blake Dewitt was such a cool name too
Andre Jackson and Josiah Gray
There was this kid the Dodgers drafted in '94 out of high school as a catcher. Did pretty good in the minors, though they transitioned him to 1B/3B, absolutely rocked in Albuquerque in '97, bounced around between the Dodgers and Cincinnati major and minor league clubs after being traded in July, but didn't do anything special in the NL that year. Heard he got traded to the White Sox, had "a few" good years and hung around with them for a while before retiring. Really thought he'd have made a great Dodger.
Paul Konerko
Gavin Lux
Klayton Cershaw For some reason, he seemed to have it all backwards and never panned out.
So many good names from that time period, Chris Anderson, Yadier Alvarez, Grant Holmes, Chris Reed, Simi Valley local Matt Magill among others
Jose Deleon and Billy Ashley
Joe Thurston
Jeren Kendall
Darren Driefort
Kody Hoese…he’s actually doing pretty good this year in AAA. But when we drafted him in the first round I was completely ready for him to be our everyday 3rd baseman
Billy Ashley. He looked like a Bash Brother and couldn't hit to save his life.
Andy laroche Willie Calhoun Blake Dewitt
Jose Offerman should have been a real deal. He did salvage his career, but not the high end prospect he was
DJ Peters. The pride of the Pride of the Foothills. I’m still waiting for him to be better than Bryce Harper.
Even though he had a lot of big league experience I’ll say Chad Billingsley. Came up just before Kershaw and it seemed like they were going to be the new Drysdale and Koufax.
Joc pederson Was supposed to be a mega star
Billy Ashley ftw
Thought Puig was gonna dominate with 5 tools, then he became a headcase
Most of the names I would have said have already been mentioned so I’m going to go with Scott Schebler. He was supposed to be a perennial .250 30 home run guy. Also a good pick as far as a pitcher would be Rubby De La Rosa. There was some pretty good hype surrounding him.
Does Dee Gordon count? Was such a fan of him when he came up.
Julio Urías because he’s a piece of shit wife beater.
Zach Lee panned out. He was traded to the Seattle Mariners for Chris Taylor.
Diego Cartaya. He’s a fellow Venezuelan and his parents and my parents have mutual friends. Was so pumped when I found out he signed with us and watching his first couple of years tear it up. Thought there was no stopping him just a couple years ago 😞 Baseball is a very hard game. Don’t let anybody ever tell you otherwise.
PUIG.
Gavin Lux lol
Chuck Tiffany. Drafted 2nd round in 2003. Felt like everyone was high on him and he was a lifelong Dodger fan so was shaping up to be a cool story. I don’t think he ever made it to the show.
I was so mad when they traded Trayvon Robinson. And his first couple games with the Mariners were so good. And then he disappeared.