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Senior Writer @NRO. Reaganite, Catholic, Mets fan, ex-lawyer. Opinions 100% my own, but you can share them. Not the Cardinals broadcaster.

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    Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 31 May 2019

    Dan McLaughlin Retweeted Dwight Gooden

    Mind-blowing that anybody saw Doc in the spring of 1982 & didn't immediately recognize the best pitcher in the draft. 300 K in 191 IP in A ball in 1983, 276 K & 2d in the Cy Young voting in 1984.https://twitter.com/DocGooden16/status/1134534594580176897 …

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    I was predicated to go 15th round and went 1 round 5th pick overall so my message is that anything can happen 2019 draftees. https://twitter.com/WayneRandazzo/status/1134527802399531009 …
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      2. Brian Faughnan‏ @BrianFaughnan 31 May 2019
        Replying to @baseballcrank

        Did people miss, or did teams think he was going to college? That happens fairly often, right?

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      3. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 31 May 2019
        Replying to @BrianFaughnan

        That does happen. Mets got Roger Clemens in the 12th round in 1981, but couldn't sign him.

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      2. Baseball and More‏ @Baseball_More 31 May 2019
        Replying to @baseballcrank

        Looking back, Dunston was considered a clear #1 on talent/athleticism. I don’t remember Schmidt. SD mgt took grief for years for drafting Jimmy Jones ahead of Gooden. Spike Owen was a college star at Texas. And then at #7 overall....Slammin’ Sammy Khalifa!!pic.twitter.com/iCId87yVDb

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      3. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 31 May 2019
        Replying to @Baseball_More

        Dunston had tremendous tools, high school hitters are harder to project than pitchers with Gooden's stuff who are all but MLB ready. I can get the difficulty of picking a pitcher over the kind of talent Dunston appeared to be.

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      2. Bob Sikes‏ @BobSikes 31 May 2019
        Replying to @baseballcrank

        @DocGooden16 didn’t even have the best arm in the 1st round - that belonged to Shawn Dunston

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      3. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 31 May 2019
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        Dunston didn't have the career projected for him - though 18 years in the bigs is nothing to sneeze at - but I can't blame anyone for taking a super-talented position player over a super-talented pitcher when both are 18-19 years old. And man did he have the tools.

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      1. RampartRambler‏ @legend034 1 Jun 2019
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        At the time, it is impossible to know. Look where Clemens was drafted.

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      1. Bob Sikes‏ @BobSikes 1 Jun 2019
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        A hand full of Mets minor league coaches went to see Gooden pitch in a HS game during spring training that year. One of them - Eddie Toledo - came back to Payson complex the next day and was demonstrative and emphatic in saying that Gooden had been the best pitching prospect (1)

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      2. Bob Sikes‏ @BobSikes 1 Jun 2019
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        (2) ....he'd ever seen. Scouting director Joe McIlvaine was with them. I recall Joe saying that they couldn't believe he was still there when the Mets picked 5th w few months later.

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      3. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 1 Jun 2019
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        I can believe that.

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