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I call the second half of the first round through Round 3 "mid-majors."  If you grab the ones that make it to the Sweet 16, you've got a winning bracket.  Jack and Mac already have Seager, Franklin, Miller, Walker, Capps, Diaz, Pike, Wilson and O'Neill from that category.  That's an Elite Eight plus a Tank.
One of these days, I've been planning to compare that to other teams.  They also drafted Ryne Stanek and Kevin Cron in that portion of the draft.  Stanek went in the first round this year and Cron will probably go in the first round next year.
For the Bavasi crew, it was the lethal combination of failed high picks and the complete lack of "mid-majors" (let alone "longshots" -- except for Saunders and Fister; maybe Maurer) that was so brutal.
And it's also fair to point out that the Gillick crew did not leave a "pipeline" for Bavasi either.