It's easy enough to characterize the whole situation as a mistake, but we have to distinguish between the kinds of mistakes every moron knows from the get go and the kind of mistakes that only seem so obvious after the fact. It certainly doesn't compare in scope, but I liken it to the Len Bias tragedy of the 1980s Celtics. You had a kid that rated out as a good player and a good kid that made one tragic mistake. Did the Celtics make a huge mistake or was it simply a horribly unforeseen tragedy? The Brady Aiken situation was a first in so many ways. If he had flamed out a la Brien Taylor or David Clyde I might agree it could have been foreseen. Looking at the evidence at the time, that could have just as easily been Carlos Rodon's arm or Tyler Kolek's arm. It wasn't and now the Astros pay the price. Since they were able to settle with Nix, that so-called mistake only costs them one slot and one year of development (plus Nix himself). I suppose it might cost them credibility, but I wonder how other organizations would have handled it.

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