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If you don't agree with me, look up the careers of Drew Henson, Jesus Montero, Delmon Young, Brien Taylor, Ruben Rivera, Fernando Martinez, Brandon Wood, Lars Anderson, Joel Guzman, Danny Goodwin, Josh Vitters, Shawn Abner, Bubba Starling, Donovan Tate, Greg Reynolds, Matt LaPorta, Lastings Milledge, Bill Pulsipher, Kyle Drabek et al. So many top prospects bust.

But Acuna and Albies were tremendous in their first MLB seasons you protest? Yes they were, but how about Walt Dropo, Harry Byrd, Jack Sanford, Don Schwall, Curt Blefary, Ted Sizemore, Earl Williams, Mark Fidrych, Herb Score, Dontrelle Willis, Bobby Crosby, Geovany Soto, Eric Hinske, Marty Cordova, Pat Listach, Bob Hamelin, Chris Sabo, Alvin Davis, Steve Sax, and Bob Horner? I'm sure more players that had very good debuts only to fizzle/get injured/not have the careers that one would expect them to have based on their beginnings can be found but that's probably enough for now. The point is we can't know what Acuna's and Albies' careers have in store for them at this very early stage. Anything can happen, which is why the randomness of the player development system makes sense. I would love to see them both go on to have fantastic careers, but at this point that is far from a guarantee.