kirchhausen

I appreciate that all of these draftees have talent, and also the Elias has forgotten more about baseball than I will ever know. That said, in no Universe did we draft 3 first round talents. By ANY metric. Kjerstad obviously is a first round talent, but was a reach in almost every indepent talent evaluators opinion. Who else would you consider first round talent? Westburg was ranked 37th by mlb pipeline, haskin 74th, servideo 110th, mayo 132nd and Baumler 102nd. One could argue that MAYBE Westburg was a 1st round talent, but the rest of them not even close.

Since 1871, there have been a total of 517 players who have accumulated a career offensive WAR of greater than 30% (per baseball reference). Of those 517, only 16 players have ever logged a BB as % of PA of less than 5%. Of those 16, only 3 have played since the 1920s: Pudge Rodriguez (1991-2011) 5.0% Mickey Rivers (1970-1984) 4.4% Adam Jones (2006-current) 4.4%