who are some of the bigger names that you remember that were deemed perennial all-stars before they had played 50 games in the big leagues, but had mediocre careers, or just flamed out?

I guess mine are from the 1989-1994 when I collected cards and was trying to load up on the players' rookie and 2nd year cards.

*Gregg Jeffries
*Brien Taylor
*Kevin Maas (not highly touted, but hit A LOT of homers in a hurry when he came up)

Eric Anthony

that's right! forgot about him.

Matt Noakes

JD Drew (maybe not the best one but his first cards were worth a ton)

Josh Hamilton

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Jeff Juden

Pat Burrell (is having a nice little career though)

Travis Lee

Ben Grieve

oh cant forget Rick Ankiel

Ryan Christiensen (was supposed to be Seattle's right handed Randy Johnson

Tim Redding LOL

Brian Hunter
Donovan Osborne
Bill Pulsipher
Angel Berroa
Travis Lee
Jeriome Robertson
Mitch Meluskey
Carlos Pena
John Hudek

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cowboy you're thinking of Ryan Anderson....he definately fits the description

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Jeriome didn't really have expectations did he?

Meluskey DEFINITELY fits the bill.

Charlie Kerfeld

Todd Van Poppel

Russell Branyan!

how did it take this long for Van Poppel to get mentioned??




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live while the whole world dies"

Todd Van Poppel was the first one that popped in my head when I saw the title of the thread...

Ben MacDonald

Does Dickie Thon count? He had a lot of promise before he got jacked in the face with a pitch.

Speaking of baseball cards, grab any donruss rate rookie worth less than $1 and throw them onto your list. I've got stacks of them.

Mr. Untouchable (when it came to trade talks), 5 tool player, future All-Star, can't miss stud himself Ruben Mateo.

Phil Nevin
Darren Dreifort
Darryl Ward

Bill Simmons (Page 2 Sports Guy) always talks about Sam Horn like he was supposed to be the Red Sox Next Big Thing.

http://sonsofsamhorn.com/

Sam Horn is probably more famous from this site than from anything he did himself.

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Ryan, you are correct my bad

I guess I will go ahead and throw out Gabe Kapler(guy was built like a race horse) as well as David McCarty

Erubiel Durazo...no one could get him out for like three weeks

Oh and the goofies player maybe I have ever seen Bob Hamelin had a monster year in 1994 and won the ROY, then hardly ever heard from again

Also Pat Listach with the brewers

And one more before I go to bed...go way back to 1976 and Mark Fydrich

Paul Wilson
Junior Felix
Felix Jose
Goose Gozzo
Willie Ansley
Matt Anderson
Corey Patterson
James Mouton
Phil Plantier

Ok, maybe not all supposed to be sure fire stars...

Oh my, we've had a Phil PLantier reference.




Maybe it's just poster bias, but it seems like 75% of these guys were on the Houston roster at some point.

Kramer: "Well I must say, this all sounds capricious and arbitrary."

Dean Jones: "Your fly is undone."

Yeah Ryan, I haven't quite figured out why Red Sox fans chose to name their message board after guy. This would be like Texags being named "OschlorFlemmingFans.com".

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Dwight Smith

re: Van Poppel -- didn't the scout that discovered Nolan Ryan (Red Murph) say that Van Poppel was going to be better than Ryan? wow.

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Yeah Ryan, I haven't quite figured out why Red Sox fans chose to name their message board after guy. This would be like Texags being named "OschlorFlemmingFans.com".

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sonsofchipambres.com?

As much as I hate to say this because I really liked the guy, but Carlos Hernandez should be on the list. Also AgRyan I was wondering what convinced you to put Robertson and Hudek on the list. Neither of those guys was thought to be anything other than a marginal prospect. Here are a few other names, mostly from the Astros organization.

Gerald Young
Eric Yelding
Cameron Drew
Eddie Taubensee

At the risk of getting bashed by the Cubs fans I think Kerry Wood would fit this list.