Message #1583154

[HalfSmokes]

You are just going by money.  I am going by the scouting reports.  Pena was nowhere near as hyped as Cabrera.  The Mets or whomever it was went nuts because he could hit a ball farther than every other kid by a lot.

http://www.milb.com/player/index.jsp?player_id=573589#/career/R/pitching/2015/ALL


http://www.baseballprospectus.com/article.php?articleid=7756

there's you're glowing scouting report, highest ever bonus at the time, and 23 year old sitting in A ball looking like a perfectly ok player