To be fair, Rendon's talent wasn't in question. It was whether or not he was too much of an injury risk/would he recover. If he didn't have that injury risk, he would have been taken sooner, without a doubt. He was basically tagged, 'Can't miss, if healthy.' Sounds like a dumb caveat, but it was a risk five other teams wouldn't take.
I don’t see how you can separate health and talent in a player eval. They are both crucial to a player’s development and evaluating health is part of scouting, just like talent. The teams that passed on him didn’t do a good job of evaluating his health risk. The Nats did.
