I always enjoy Nick Cafardo's Sunday baseball column in The Boston Globe. To me, it is the closest thing to Peter Gammons' old Sunday columns in the same paper.
This week, Cafardo had a thought-provoking factoid on Ken Griffey Jr.'s Hall of Fame induction. The MLB Amateur Baseball Draft began in 1965, and Griffey is the first No. 1 overall pick to be inducted into the Hall of Fame. Griffey was selected No. 1 in 1987. Cafardo wrote that it shouldn't be too long before fans get another No. 1 overall pick into the Hall of Fame, as Chipper Jones was selected No. 1 in 1990.
The fact remains that it took 51 years for the talent evaluators to get it perfectly right.
When the Minnesota Twins fired longtime general manager Terry Ryan July 18, the story seemed to catch everyone off guard. But the actual story is a bit different.
