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Shockingly, the first decade of this RD league is in the books. The top six picks (Six because it's the equivalent in a sixteen team league of a top ten pick in a 26 team league). Each draft is five rounds worth of players plus one Spritze player, and one Negro League player from the Spritze (they're hard to dig up with the ole Random Number Generator) Database. I will gradually increase the number of Spritzies, as teams get added to the league. Probably one more in 1969 (1968 draft, if I ever get there), and maybe one in 1998 (1997 draft, if I make it), but definitely once I expand in 2020 (2019 draft). That's a looong way away though, so for now it'll just be two.

1901 Amateur Draft (extremely weak):

1. Johnny Bassler, C
2. Mark Portugal, P
3. Kolten Wong, 2B
4. Sam Chapman, CF
5. Carlos Marmol, P
6. Michael Conforto, LF

1902 Amateur Draft (ridiculously strong):

1. Ted Williams, LF
2. Ivan Rodriguez, C
3. David Wright, 3B
4. George J Burns, LF
5. Mike Morgan, P
6. Terry Kennedy, C

1903 Amateur Draft (great top pick):

1. Bret Saberhagen, P
2. Kelly Gruber, 3B
3. Burnis Wright (Negro Leaguer), RF
4. Dave S Smith, P
5. Gary Bell, P
6. Tom Bradley, P

1904 Amateur Draft (extremely strong in pitching):

1. Bob Shawkey, P
2. Corey Kluber, P
3. Leon Day (Negro Leaguer), P
4. Dutch H Leonard, P
5. Anibal Sanchez, P
6. Dave A Roberts, P

1905 Amateur Draft, which was very strong at the top, and very deep. So deep that John Lackey, Clyde Milan, Brandon Phillips, and Tom P Daly didn't crack the top six:

1. John Clarkson, P
2. Graig Nettles, 3B
3. John Beckwith (Negro Leaguer), 3B
4. Pee Wee Reese, SS
5. Ed Reulbach, P
6. Andy Messersmith, P

1906 Amateur Draft. Excellent top pick, and a good second pick, but after that, it got kinda meh:

1. Mike Piazza, C
2. George Wright (19th century guy, brought in via Spritze pre-1871), SS
3. Wally Moon, 1B
4. Eddie Guardado, P
5. Pete Falcone, P
6. Alex Claudio, P

1907 Amateur Draft (very nice top six here, particularly the top four):

1. Brian Downing, C
2. Jack Clements, C
3. Ted Kluszewski, 1B
4. Hal Trosky Sr., 1B
5. Bernard Gilkey, LF
6. Todd Frazier, 3B

1908 Amateur Draft (unbelievable top three, but fell off steeply after that):

1. Rogers Hornsby, 2B
2. Reggie Jackson, RF
3. Joe Gordon, 2B
4. Don Slaught, C
5. Bob Nieman, RF
6. Bobby Lowe, 2B

1909 Amateur Draft. Not as deep as the 1905 draft, but very strong, and a very nice top four:

1. Robin Yount, SS
2. Chase Utley, 2B
3. Alonzo Perry (Negro Leaguer), 1B
4. Mike J Griffin, CF
5. Harold Baines, RF
6. Lee Meadows, P

1910 Amateur Draft. Lots of high impact position players have arrived in previous drafts, but this league could really use some high end pitching, and this draft provided some. Outside of the 1904 Draft, the high end talent has mostly been position players, and it's definitely showing in the level of league wide offense. What a fantastic top five:

1. Harry Stovey, LF
2. Dwight Gooden, P
3. Harry Brecheen, P
4. Lefty Gomez, P
5. Jose A Bautista, 3B
6. Mike Davis, RF

Just like RL, there are reeeally strong drafts, and reeeally poopy drafts, and drafts that are somewhere in the middle. My inner baseball geek loves to look back on them. Yep. I'm a weirdo.