Those days are long gone and better forgotten . Riccardi had drafted Adams and Hill then decided he needed to draft the holes rather than the best player available. He wanted to clone what Oakland had done drafting college LHed pitching.
Take a long look at his drafts 2002 thru 2008 . What a f***ing disaster. Almost everyone screaming for AA,s head but most were too young to remember the crap the farm produced during those lean, hell vacant years. I get slaughterd on this site for my support of AA but just look at that s*** that JPR drafted.