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Gordon, that is a fantastic recap.
Because of this track record of drafting though, I think it is critical that the M's do NOT sign some high dollar free agent and lose their first round pick.
While McNamara and crew have not been perfect, they have been a whole lot more accurate than most teams, and thus that first round pick has a very good chance of helping us in the near future.
PLUS, since I am sure that the M's will do what they have done in the past, save money for later rounds - like how they saved over $2 million last year on signing Zunino way under the assigned cap dollars. Thus, with this saved money, they can pick some of the diamonds in the rough like Pike, Lopes, DeCarlo and several others in prior years. If the M's lose the first round pick, that not only lose that pick, they lose the extra money to spend in the later rounds.
To tie this to other threads then, Jack really needs to have a good off season where he can find ways to package a couple of more of our prospects to get the stars for 2013 M's, because the waves of new talent are coming... and it does us no good to have 5+ MLB ready 2B guys and 10+ MLB ready pitchers all in the minors when the big club can't hit the ball out of the infield.
Come on Jack!!! Work that Sodo Mojo!