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Message: [QUOTE="Fly Rodder, post: 1255786, member: 2133"] It'll probably swing the other way eventually. The major theme of Moneyball was identifying market inefficiencies in talent acquisition. At the time, the A's came to believe that too often teams were drafting guys that looked like baseball players or had athletic skills, but not necessarily the talent or ability. They were drafting on potential and more skilled players with some obvious warts were falling to the later rounds. Pro teams are largely like flocks of seagulls chasing the next tasty bit of flotsam and aren't always the most rational actors. I have a hard time believing that if you were picking between these two players, player B is so clearly best choice that Player A doesn't warrant consideration because he's shorter: Player A (6'8", 250lbs, 7'4" wingspan, 34" vertical) Player B (7'0", 275lbs, 7'0" wingspan, 32" vertical) [/QUOTE]