I think you hit the nail on the head, scouting has a natural bias against smaller players.
didn't we see the same thing when pedroia was drafted?
Aren't we having this same conversation about chavis now?
Last year Lester worked almost exclusively with Ross and lester had a very nice year.
This year, Ross is retired and Lester is not having as nice a year.
Sometimes pitchers and catchers develop chemistry. When it works, you ride it.
With three really good teams in the al east and us having tons of games against the rays and yanks left, and the yanks having tons of games against us and Toronto left, I think we are in for a wild finish.
I have wondered if our team's philosophy of teaching starting pitchers to throw only fastballs, curves and change ups is hurting the development of our pitchers.
Outside of Tampa, St. Louis and the dodgers, not many teams crank out tons of pitching.
Finding and developing pitchers remains a difficult task by any metric available.