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WAR data added to the B-R Draft Section

Posted by Sean Forman on May 18, 2010

1st Round of the 2006 MLB June Amateur Draft - Baseball-Reference.com.

Having this WAR data onhand is kind of fun. I added a column for total WAR (note pitchers include their batting WAR) to the draft pages. At the bottom of the page is the overall production for the players shown and the averages among the players who made the majors.

Some examples:

Cardinals First Round Picks

Players drafted out of Iowa

The Royals 1992 draft

Related posts:

    Linking Draft Data to Minors Data
    Draft: Search by Position and Round
    Site Features: Draft Tools, Part II
    2010 Major League Baseball Amateur Draft Preview
    2009 MLB Draft Preview

This entry was posted on Tuesday, May 18th, 2010 at 12:27 pm and is filed under Announcements, Draft. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.

2 Responses to “WAR data added to the B-R Draft Section”

  1. Johnny Twisto Says:
    May 18th, 2010 at 1:33 pm

    So, which team's single draft has been the most productive in history? (We peons can't search that directly, can we?)

  2. Best draft picks in Yankee history, by round | River Avenue Blues Says:
    May 19th, 2010 at 10:31 am

    [...] if B-Ref couldn’t get any better, yesterday Sean Forman introduced WAR data to the site’s draft pages. Now you can go and see that Alex Rodriguez has the highest career WAR (99.0) among players taken [...]

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