PITTSBURGH -- Everyone except the Los Angeles Angels missed on Mike Trout in the 2009 draft. That was intensely documented earlier this month in an excellent piece by ESPN's Keith Law.
Within the piece, Eddie Bane, the Angels' scouting director, is strikingly quoted as saying, "There were teams that didn't even cross-check him."
So naturally, I started asking some questions related to the Pirates, who held the No. 4 overall pick that year and wasted it on Boston College catcher Tony Sanchez, who'd log a grand total of 144 at-bats in the bigs.