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Cody B.
Place has to be one of Theo’s worst draft picks if not thee worst.
TapDancingTeddy
Verily!
hartvig
To be fair, I’d guess that about a third of all first round picks typically have any sort of major league career. Just picking a year at random, in 1999 of the 51 first round picks (including supplemental) only 23 ever played in the majors and 15 of those had career WAR’s below 2.8 and over half of those 15 (8) actually had negative career WAR’s. In ’98, it looks like over half played in the majors but a bunch of those had very brief careers. And once you get past the top 10 or 15 picks it gets to be a real crap shoot and a lot of players never see the majors.
safari_punch
Seems like Mikey is taking a dig at BA’s analysis.
Me rikey.
Toby
Virtually none of the Cubs high picks ever pan out, which is probably high on the list of “100 Years and Counting.”