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Originally Posted by RonCo
Not all of them stick, but all of them are deemed worthy enough to try.
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Those guys who don't stick but are deemed worthy to try are one star players in game. So I'm not sure what you're arguing there.
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Originally Posted by RonCo
I think you are mis-characterizing the yields of draft classes...
With career lengths factored in, I don't think it's too far-fetched to say that an "average" team draft results in two guys every year who make a significantly positive contribution to a major league baseball team. Some are only 1.5 WAR, but that's a significant achievement...and if they can keep that up, they will have a nice little career as a utility guy or a lefty out of the pen or whatever.
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Not at all. You're highly overrating what teams get from a typical draft.
Look at the Angels list above, taken from a period when they were a top team and considered elite at drafting and development.
I could have cherry picked my Mets or the Tigers or Royals from that same time period and you'd see some really awful drafts, year after year.
The Angels were actually killing it in those years and they only got 13 MLB regulars in 14 years.