That's such hot garbage. This is exactly what these teams are paid and made to do. They have an entire department of scouts that spend an entire year meticulously shuffling through thousands of players, putting every amateur athlete under a microscope to come up with a list that is as precise as possible. Their entire mission is to literally predict which players will hit and which won't. They are paid to see the future. Every step of the way the people on this forum s*** on the Jays about moves in hindsight, and while I agree with most of those sentiments, it doesn't make me a homer to ask for some consistency. We can s*** on the Jays for poor draft picks or for not correctly predicting breakouts like Gomes, but we can give a pass to the Rays on a terrible draft when the Red Sox picked right along side them, and hit on nearly every guy?
We judge GM's and their front offices on what we know now. We don't give them the benefit of the doubt in not being able to predict the future or "making the right choice at the time". We never have done that, and there's no reason to start now just because it sheds a negative light on a team we admire. The draft is one of the more important pools from which the Rays should be getting their talent, and for seven years, they've been wildly unsuccessful at it.