Funny thing about baseball drafts. It takes five years to really get any sense of what you got and probably a full decade to actually come up with a grade.
As the 10th anniversary of the game-changing 2009 draft approaches, it is clear it was a draft that changed baseball and especially the AL West. It included the greatest player of a generation, Mike Trout. It heralded the arrival of analytics and metrics to accentuate the transition of scouting from abstract art to more of a science. And it hastened the rise of Jeff Luhnow, who would eventually turn Houston into world champions.