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Friday, May 15, 2009

Kris Benson = Stephen Strasburg?

By Tangotiger, 04:08 PM

Here are their numbers in 1996, as well as how the draft went:

Grouping     #     Total WAR     Avg /season
College Pitcher     8     31.3     0.652
HS Pitcher     13     23.5     0.301
College Hitter     5     16.1     0.536
HS Hitter     9     22.4     0.414

First off, the negative WAR should be reduced to zero.  Secondly, we would LIKE to see the WAR per player per the same for every subgroup.  That would imply we have equilibrium.  Obviously, we can’t make any conclusion based on one year.  But, if you do this over a long enough time period, you get to see how well MLB has done in choosing between HS, College, Pitchers, and hitters.  Here’s an example of what I mean.

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