It's safe to say that Darryl Strawberry was one of the greatest draft prospects of all time. In one of my favorite baseball books--Dollar Sign on the Muscle--Kevin Kerrane narrates the buzz around Strawberry's entry into the draft, and scouts were absolutely enamored. If you take a look at the scouting report featured in the book, it has all the language that prospect-lovers dream about. In the "strong points" category, the scout stated, "Just might be that super star of the very near future... hard to visualize what he will become." And under "weaknesses," he simply said, "No weaknesses now.
1996 Yankees 20th Anniversary Retrospective: Darryl Strawberry
