You seriously don't understand??? Neither Rendon who went what? 6th? or Giolito who went around what? 16th? Were undervalued or something you can hang your hat on as being a super GM in getting. He made no shrewd moves to get either. They fell in his lap much like Harper and Strasburg. Do you give Rizzo accolades for drafting those two? Those guys aren't the ones people like Rizzo earn their stripes on, it's the Michael Taylor's etc and trades that get you Fister or Ramos that earn those stripes.
Oh, I think you're under appreciating Rizzo's willingness, even aggressiveness in going after undervalued talents. In the case of Rendon and Giolito, they were undervalued by other GM's shy of their injury history. Rizzo calculated, gambled, or whatever that they would recover to previous ability. So far the Rendon pick looks brilliant, and Giolito's on track to make Rizzo look good too.
If anything, I think those two picks are so obviously successful that the door may be closing for that sort of pick, you're going to see other teams take more chances on guys with known issues, particularly pitchers with elbow problems.
