MLB Amateur Draft Picks who came from “san bernardino” – Baseball-Reference.com
Posted by Sean Forman on May 26, 2010
MLB Amateur Draft Picks who came from "San Bernardino" - Baseball-Reference.com
As a followup to my previous post on school type in the draft data, we just updated about 1,200 more schools, so there are now just 1,200 out of 61,815 total draft picks for which we lack school data (or about 10-20 each year). We've also continued to standardize school names so players from the same school all show up together.
In case, you are curious, we show 23,592 players from 4-year schools, 23,426 out of high school and 13,554 from juco's.
May 26th, 2010 at 11:29 am
What a great resource. How does one submit a correction for a school name? I was browsing through picks from my hometown (Springfield, IL) and saw that my high school was incorrect. Thanks!
May 26th, 2010 at 11:29 am
You can submit an update here.
http://sr.fogbugz.com/
May 26th, 2010 at 6:41 pm
Thanks to your sister site, basketball-reference.com, I was able to answer a question I had regarding this year's baseball and NBA drafts. With the Washington Nationals and the Washington Wizards both holding the top pick, I wondered if this was the first time that the teams picking first in the NBA and baseball drafts (June regular phase for years when there were multiple baseball drafts) were based in the same city.
I found that this happened twice before, but not in the past 34 years:
1976 - Houston Rockets picked John Lucas (a two-sport star from the University of Maryland, but his second sport was not a typical one for big-time basketball players: it was tennis), and the Houston Astros picked Floyd Bannister.
1966 - New York Knicks picked Cazzie Russell, and the New York Mets picked Steve Chilcott, one of only three players drafted first overall (in a June primary phase draft) to never make the majors, not counting two who are still working their way up through the minors (this is assuming that Matt Bush is out of baseball and that Stephen Strasburg hasn't gotten the call yet).
The top picks in 1965, baseball's first-ever draft year, were both made by teams whose past was in Philadelphia and whose future was in Oakland:
1965 - San Francisco Warriors picked Fred Hetzel, and the Kansas City Athletics picked Rick Monday.
May 27th, 2010 at 10:54 am
The Mets took Chilcott instead of the man the A's took with the second pick...Reggie Jackson.
May 27th, 2010 at 11:19 am
The total WAR data listed under the chart is double counting guys who were drafted twice.
On a side note, my alma mater - University of Maryland - hasn't produced much by way of MLB talent