While the Washington Nationals have draft picks I suspect fans wouldn’t want to rescind, like Ryan Zimmerman in 2005, Stephen Strasburg in 2009, Bryce Harper in 2010, and Anthony Rendon in 2011, there are some worth changing. That doesn’t mean we won’t have a look at some of those years, but the Nationals had a strong string of draft picks as the 2000s shifted into the 2010s — years that had strong classes across the board.
And while it’s unfair to hold a failure to pick certain players against organizations most of the time, sometimes we’re left wondering what the scouts didn’t see or did see in certain players.