O's Have Drafted the Third Lowest WAR Since 1995

[Can_of_corn]

Hey at least they beat the Yankees.

https://www.reddit.com/r/baseball/comments/ct2mgt/analysis_who_has_drafted_the_most_war_into/

[Aristotelian]

Fortunately, whatever deficiencies we have had in drafting, we have made up for by signing top quality free agents and international talent!

[eddie83]

Rangers surprise me. Yanks don’t. 

Trying to think about Texas. Texiera obviously.  

[Can_of_corn]

1 minute ago, eddie83 said:

Rangers surprise me. Yanks don’t. 

Trying to think about Texas. Texiera obviously.  

Chris Davis of course!

[eddie83]

Scanned the comments a little. Yanks fans saying their winning hurts their drafts- it does- and yet the Cards have kept rolling. I know they haven’t won as much as NY but still. Also Boston has done well.  

[eddie83]

2 minutes ago, Can_of_corn said:

Chris Davis of course!

True. Seems like to they have always had good hitters. Hank Blaylock. I’m testing my brain before I research out of curiosity. 

[MurphDogg]

3 minutes ago, Can_of_corn said:

Chris Davis of course!

And Tommy Hunter!

[Ohfan67]

I think Frobby and others have posted some illuminating and incredibly depressing breakdowns of the Orioles drafting and player development that covered even older drafts. Very depressing stuff. There were some huge stretches where the Orioles got basically nothing meaningful out of entire drafts. If I remember correctly, there was a huge gap in position players from like Ripken to Brian Roberts and a very lengthy gap after Mussina for pitchers. As dark as things are now, at least the Orioles have done better with drafts and player development in the last ten years or so and there's reason to think it will be better in the near future. 

[canonfaz]

Not any way to go but up from here, and Sig probably had a pretty good impact on a few of those Cardinals drafts. 

[eddie83]

1 minute ago, canonfaz said:

Not anyway to go but up from here, and Sig probably had a pretty good impact on a few of those Cardinals drafts. 

Yes. And a Pujols helps.  

[atomic]

Cardinals do so well by hacking other teams databases. 

[eddie83]

Not a complete list here for Texas for the big one I forgot and should have remembered is Kinsler. They also drafted E Encarnacion, Hafner and Carlos Pena. 

More pitchers than I recall. Dempster, John Danks and Hedricks. For a team that feels like it has always been carried by bats they let some get away. 

They also have not done much last decade or so.  

[AceKing]

With consistently good draft picks, well above the last two teams.

 

We have all lived through this embarrassment.This is just another way to frame it.

 

We sucked. For decades.

[AceKing]

7 minutes ago, atomic said:

Cardinals do so well by hacking other teams databases. 

If ya ain’t cheating, ya ain’t tryin....

 

Ask the Patriots

[AceKing]

22 minutes ago, eddie83 said:

Scanned the comments a little. Yanks fans saying their winning hurts their drafts- it does- and yet the Cards have kept rolling. I know they haven’t won as much as NY but still. Also Boston has done well.  

See my cheating comment.

Both Boston and St. Louis have been accused of some forms of cheating, sooooooo...