Watching last season, this summer, and reading national journalists and podcasts has tempered my ranking of our players.
Interesting podcast interview on Lowe Post (Zach Lowe), with David Epstein, author of the highly acclaimed "Range."
Epstein points out how GMs have a tendency due to the amount of time they spend on developing their own players, to assess a higher value to them. I think we as fans do the same thing. We spend so many times reading, and writing, things about the Celtic players, and watching them play, that we tend to inflate their value relative to other players. Watching the USA team play gave me better context to compare our guys versus the other players on their team.
His book sounds interesting, I plan to read it soon.