Baseball Busts

So, I am only 15 and started watching baseball when I was 4, so since 1998. My cousin really got me into prospects and all this since I was 10 so since 2003. Since then I have followed prospects and have come across many "busts". Here is my list of the "biggest busts" in my opinion

BUSTS:

Matt Bush (Major idiot)
Mark Prior (He was so good but just was over-used. Not his fault but lost a great opportunity)
Brien Taylor (Idiot)
Wade Townsend (Drafted #6 two years in a row)
Eric Duncan (I actually saw him play in high school and he was absolutly great)
Delmon Young (He still has a chance but seems to be getting worse and worse. I am glad Tampa traded him)
Nick Adenhart (A bust because he had his life stolen from him and he really had a bright future ahead for him)
Matt Antonelli (Just don't know what happened)
Bryon Bullington
Dewon Brazelton (I remember all the hype he had with Tampa saying he was their "Ace of the Future" What happened?)
Rocco Baldelli (A sad bust here as well. He had some good years up until his 1st couple injuries and then being diagnosed with the Mitochondrial disorder. Could have been a great player)

ON THE CUSP OF BEING A BUST:

Alex Gordon (He's not living up to all the hype that was surrounding him and seems like the MLB is "too much")
Jeremy Jeffress (With all the steroid use he just is making himself worse and worse)
Billy Rowell (I think the O's may give up on him. I saw him play in High School too and he probably should have gone to college to develop)


I am sure there are more so let's see who your busts are and here what you guys have to say

hurray ! only one Pirate on your list

Jeffress used roids?

I thought he was busted for weed.

I know what you are intending to show with your list...but I dont really think you can call Prior, Adenhart, and Baldelli busts.....

Prior may not have lived up to the hype and has been injured a lot, but he is still a starting pitcher at the big league level.

Adenhart was fantastic in the minors and showed how well he was going to be in the majors---certainly not a bust...

Baldelli has had numerous good years and was very valuable for the Rays until his recent illness--but certainly not a bust--I dont even remember him being a highly touted prospect.


TK

Wasn't Jeffress busted for weed?


Gordon isn't a bust.I think he just didn't live up to they hype.I don't consider that being a bust.I consider someone who never gets a career going and maintains it to be a bust.Kinda like Brien Taylor.


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Damn...numberonemetfan beat me to it!

Please don't include Adenhart on this list.

Todd Van Poppel
Jaret Wright
Phil Plantier

Maybe I'm just bitter right now, but can we add Milton Bradley?

Philip J. Fry said:

Todd Van Poppel
Jaret Wright
Phil Plantier

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Ben McDonald too....remember how crazy his stuff was especially the 1990 Upper Deck.......also, Kevin Mahs,


TK

gracecollector said:

Maybe I'm just bitter right now, but can we add Milton Bradley?

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Dont be mad because just because the Cubs have to pay him $20 mil........


I dont even think Milton Bradly can be called a bust really.....an arrogant arse, maybe, but not a bust.

josh3302 said:

Nick Adenhart (A bust because he had his life stolen from him and he really had a bright future ahead for him)

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That's like calling Ernie Davis a bust. Not only rude, but completely untrue.

Antonelli can;t be called a bust yet, what happened is that his swing sucked. The Padres FO had a problem with it when he was drafted, but since he was having success with it they let him go on with it. But now that he's struggled two years in a row he was sent to Instructs to rework it completely, he could make a comeback next year.

Travis lee
Ben Grieve

Dude, really, Adenhart? Take him off that list right now. How insensitive can you be?

zan

Morganna Roberts


Sorry.

I'll add Drew Henson (double bust).

List = Epic Fail

thats sad that you put adenhardt on a "bust" list. Its just a sad thing, not a "bust"

Zan said:

Dude, really, Adenhart? Take him off that list right now. How insensitive can you be?

zan

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Honestly...by the definitions a lot of the board seems to recognize for a prospect being a bust...Adenhart qualifies.He never lived up to the hype.While his death was tragic and a serious waste of life and talent due to idiocy...he never ='d his hype factor.I don't personally agree he was a bust by I think a lot of people are trying to pick and choose their definition as it suits them.Ernie Davis would have been considered a bust as well by a lot of standards the board seems to have.

A number of disagreements with the list, which is too long to get into, but where, oh where is Matt Harrington? A number of the players on the list either aren't true busts, or became so through injury, but Harrington to me is the epitome of a true bust.

how can you include brien taylor on that list? he was a bust before you were even born.