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Is a very intriguing suggestion.
Gillick, as an ex-pitcher himself, was phenomenal with pitchers. But there are a lot of scouts, with hair-fine feel for the 9 guys around the diamond, who are a little less inspired with the strange animal that is the baseball pitcher.
Who was it who said, "pitchers aren't ballplayers"? Was that Greg Maddux or somebody? :- )
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Am not convicting Zduriencik of bad judgment on pitchers. Not at all. He or Wakamatsu or somebody made a lot of awfully nice finds in the 4-5 slots last year, Vargas and Fister and others. But it's an interesting idea.