Spec with his usual info-taining post on the M's latest draft pick :- ) What a subject!
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=== Ran for 1,500 yards? Sounds like a 6th-rounder to me, Dept. ===
My cornball opinion is that this kind of athleticism actually seems to correlate with ballplayers disappointing at the highest levels ... just a thought, nothing more...
The fundamental challenge in baseball involves exquisite hand-eye coordination, for pitchers as well.
John Benson rule: The difference between an AAA pitcher and an ML All-Star is tiny tiny tiny in the absolute sense... it's like, AAA pitchers are 1-in-100,000 and ML All-Stars are 1 in 5,000,000 or pick your number...
If Walker throws 95, that's great, but that makes him a class-A pitcher, as opposed to making him an ML impact pitcher. We're talking about the difference between a PCL pitcher and an AL pitcher.
At these 8-SD and 10-SD spots on the bell curve, you're looking more for a few specific extreme mutations of the DNA :- ) as opposed to a well-rounded set of gifts.
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=== 90 Dice Points, Pick Your STR CON CHR WIS DEX Dept. ===
My first take, and it's nothing more than that, is that if an athlete was dealt a hand full of face cards in his DNA, that he may not have the 3 or 4 Aces where he really needs them...
You can find two-sport stars such as Danny Ainge, but was Ainge a great ballplayer?
Not sure who it was who said, "I'm not an athlete, I'm a ballplayer" and somebody else said "I'm not a ballplayer, I'm a pitcher" ;- ) ... I'm a pretty firm believer in this...
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In Dungeons and Dragons, for example, you might be given 80 or 90 points to pick a character's attributes. Do you want 18 intelligence and only 14 strength? Or do you want 16 in both?
That's the paradigm that I think of, when you ask about the Randy Johnsons and Tim Lincecums of the world... their throwing points are up to max, doubled, and then doubled again... should be no surprise if they've got 3 wisdom points :- ) or hitting points or GQ points or whatever...
One Yankee said about Yogi Berra, "if somebody was going to be made as ugly as Yogi, the least that could happen was that Yogi would be lucky"... now we're getting about 10 degrees off subject LOL but...
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On a scale of 3-18 (3d6), if you gave me 24 points in real life to divide between (say) Intelligence and Constitution, I'd take the very maximum in one category -- I'd take 18 INT and 6 CON rather than 12 in each. That would set me at the very end of the bell curve in one specialized skill, and I could go about designing my life to exploit that...
D&D characters do the same. A player with 18 DEX becomes a legendary thief... a player with 10 DEX and 10 CON becomes lunch for the shambling mound.
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And, of course, some people have 88 overall attribute points, some 74, some 102, but the basic principle still applies. It will always be tough to find a Cy Young winner who leads the NBA in scoring.
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