Where would Dylan Bundy have ranked but for the recent injury?
J.J. Cooper: That’s an impossible question to answer because he doesn’t rank because of injuries. The Dylan Bundy we saw in 2012 was one of the best young pitching prospects any scout we talked to had ever seen. Guys gushed about how advanced he was with exceptional stuff. No one has seen that Dylan Bundy now in three full seasons. He was out all of 2013. He missed much of 2014 and he pitched sparingly this year. In neither 2014 or 2015 did he show that same dominant stuff that he had pre-injury. We talked to scouts who saw Bundy late last year say that if they didn’t know he was Dylan Bundy, they would have NP’d (non-prospect) him when writing him up. We can all hope that Bundy will bounce back from this injury to become the dominant pitcher he was expected to become, but the odds of that happening after an elbow and shoulder injury are pretty frightening. He’s always been willing to put in the work to be the best he can be, which is a good sign, but shoulder injuries are always disconcerting.
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