Steve:

Thanks for the memories! At least Harris could run…

Scout – you might like this one:

http://waswatching.com/2006/03/21/estee-harris-the-next-andy-brown/

I’ll always have a fond spot for Andy Brown. Two or three years after the Yankees drafted him and he was at Staten Island, I saw him play in person at Skylands, then the home of the short-season NJ Cardinals. And I relaized immediately that I was watching the worst professional baseball player I had ever seen. Memories like that will stay with you for a lifetime…

big things weren’t expected from Hutton either. Of the names listed above, maybe Ruben Rivera, Drew Henson & Sean Henn were expected to make bigger contributions than they did.

I don’t know what happened to Reuben, but it seems once he went to the Padres organization, he forgot how to hit?

Bam Bam is a good one. Brad Halsey was never a big prospect, that big things were expected from. One that I remember was Mark Hutten

Kennedy is not on that list. He’s 23/24 and was a first round pick in 2006. Give the kid a chance to develop.

Ian “Call Me IPK” Kennedy? Hensley “Bam Bam” Meulens? Brad “the Admiral” Halsey? El Duquecito?

You can add Wily Mo Pena and Jackson Mellian to the list.

Whatever Ricky Ledee was or wasn’t, I can’t add him to the list because he (along with Jake Westbrook and Zach Day) brought back David Justice in a trade. As I remember it, David Justice played a big role for the 2000 World Series team.

Even if a prospect fails to pan out, if you can trade that prospect for something that gets you a WS ring, that prospect served his purpose.