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Monday, February 01, 2010

Draft WAR

By Tangotiger, 02:04 PM

Good data.  You should really zero out the WAR at the career level.

Third Round
College hitters-- .115 WAR/year
High School hitters-- .424 WAR/year
College pitchers (sic)—(.023) WAR/year
High School pitchers-- .058 WAR/year

Basically, from the third round (and later I suppose), pitchers provide almost no value.  I don’t know how many pitchers he has in his top 2 rounds, say about 25 per year.  That pretty much sets the mark: after the best 25 pitchers in high school and college, everyone else is hit and miss.

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