Fanpost Friday: What Marlins player were you most wrong about?

Prompt: Who were you the most wrong about? What was a player you believed in that never panned out? Who were you down on that proved you wrong?

Trying to make predictions on who will actual pan out in the big leagues is borderline impossible. Every fan has those players that they just have a feeling about. It can be a first round draft pick or the MLB version of Mr. Irrelevant, and there will always be someone out there that thinks they’ll be a megastar.

I mean, there were 24 players drafted before Mike Trout back in 2009. Every team thought they had picked a foundational piece that they could construct a team around. Some teams were correct (like the Nationals with Stephen Strasburg) and others were definitely not (like the Marlins with...*cleans glasses* Chad James).

I’m not claiming Chad James as my pick. I’ll go with someone much nearer and dearer to our hearts. Good old Wei-Yin Chen. The prestigious cover player of MLB: The Show in 2013, 2014, and 2017. Granted, that was the Taiwanese version of the game but still!

I thought the Marlins would be set with Chen on the mound. He finished fourth in the 2012 AL Rookie of the Year award behind Trout, Yoenis Cespedes, and Yu Darvish. He wasn’t one of the best pitchers in the league during his careers with the Orioles, but he absolutely was one of the more consistent ones on a string of bad O’s teams. That levelheadedness and ability to pitch well with very limited run support seemed like a perfect fit for one of the most offensively studded teams in baseball. The money being paid to him is obviously beyond frustrating, but I honestly wasn’t even mad about it at the time.

Welllllllll, look where we are now, folks. I deserve to have Dick Van Dyke as the One Man Band from Mary Poppins following me around, pausing between every instrument note to shout WRONG in my face. I could write so much more about Chen, but I eventually just grit my teeth and start to rage-sweat. It’s a holiday weekend and ain’t nobody got time for that!

So in a world that openly mocks people online for poor takes, let’s take a trip down memory lane and see which player you thought was going to be fire . How wrong were you with a draft pick or a player acquired in a trade?

Whip us up a Fanpost and let us know!

Prompt: Who were you the most wrong about? What was a player you believed in that never panned out? Who were you down on that proved you wrong?