![]() They were the three best players of the draft by a lot. Now that you know a few of the issues regarding our process, let’s get into it.ġ985: Bust: 53%, Reserve/Role: 18%, Starter: 19%, All-Star: 7%, MVP: 0%īarry Larkin (CIN SS), Will Clark (SF 1B ), and Barry Bonds (PIT OF) were drafted this year. But the first rounders get the money and the spotlight (and have the highest chance of making the majors), so we chose to focus on them. Yes, we left off the other thirty-nine rounds, we know. ![]() Reserve: any player averaging between 0.2-1.0 WAR per season.įinally, the Mythbusters team only used the first round. We decided upon the following groups:īust: any player averaging less than 0.2 WAR per season We, the research team, decided that trial and error and some arbitrary group consensus would suffice for the cutoffs. Third, we had to set boundaries for levels players would be considered at based on their average WAR values and those were, unfortunately, not researched as far as they should have been. To combat that, we started with the first five years and dropped the lowest two yearly totals, but that still doesn’t solve the problem completely. ![]() Our test wouldn’t account for that level of production later in a career (it did still count Bonds as a perennial All-Star so it’s not as though we were that far off the mark). Bonds went on a historic rampage through the record books, but that wasn’t until after he had some MLB experience under his belt. The most famous example in recent history? Barry Bonds. Baseball is too complicated a game for the answer to be 42. It does a pretty good job, but let’s be honest, we can’t sum up the value of a player with just one single number. Before we get any further, I want to discuss some error in that process.įirstly, WAR is a single statistic that attempts to encompass all of a player’s value. As a group, we took each draft class from 1985-2010 and analyzed each player’s first five season’s in the MLB based on WAR. For your convenience, we have put together an enormous spreadsheet that has our analysis of each draft class. No longer do we have to trust scouts and rely on their gut instinct as we search for the next stud. And geez, what dark ages were we in thirty years ago? How did scouts and executives even know if a player was good then? With the birth and widespread use of analytics in baseball front offices, it logically follows that executives should be better than ever at drafting players now than before. In recent years, fans and analysts alike have agreed that over the past decade, front offices have done a better job of drafting, even better than twenty years ago. I suppose I already told you how this article will turn out though since we call ourselves “Mythbusters” not “Mythprovers.” We took to calling ourselves the “Major League Mythbusters.” Although we only got one project done for the semester, it was a good one. At the beginning of the winter semester in 2018, some M-SABR members set out to bust some MLB myths. This article has been a long time coming. Major League Mythbusters: Assessing MLB Draft Performance Over Time Home › Articles › Analysis › Major League Mythbusters: Assessing MLB Draft Performance Over Time ![]()
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