Indeed, the franchise is potentially taking a risk, rebuilding the majority of the line from within with unproven talent, using few outside free agents.

The names are different, but the idea is the same: clubs going money-mad for free agents with deteriorated or unproven talent.

But it is also a place where unproven talents are taken seriously, as they rarely are anywhere else.

Mr. Lars is one of the recent brood of fledgling designers to benefit from retailers' new receptiveness toward unproven talent.

Donnie Walsh, the Indiana Pacers' president, said, "there is no standard bearer" and plenty of unproven talent up top.

But the three-year rookie salary scale did not limit the earning power of young, unproven talents as many players thought it would.

Steinbrenner's importation of an unproven talent into a starting rotation that helped produce a championship could easily have destroyed any positive direction in the clubhouse.

And a shrewd match of writer and subject by an experienced television executive, if a gamble on an unproven talent.

We seem to have a good eye for unproven talent waiting for some experienced guidance and hard-to-find funding".

In fact, the Giants chose not to re-sign several star players this past August, instead going with younger albeit unproven talent.