so you're saying that just because other teams made a mistake means that we didn't? The nice thing about sports, especially in drafts when you do have a break out player is you can objectively say one choice was better than another. Just because all the research leads you to one choice doesn't mean it's the correct one
We made a mistake, and 23 other teams made a mistake. But the mistake (IMHO) is mitigated when others make the same mistake. Trout was picked 25th, therefore the consensus was that Trout was the 25th best player in that draft. Look, hindsight is 20/20, if you want, you can go back and redo every draft just taking the player who turned out the best a few years later. But the draft plays out because that's the way that MLB teams evaluated that group of players.
If we had passed on Strasburg, who was a consensus #1, that would have been a huge, measurable mistake.