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It's why it's disingenuous to say the Cards got 'half a year of Dotel, Jackson, Patterson and a few years of a LOOGY for Rasmus.'

We also got three very high picks for him. (not to mention an eventual World Series ring, but that's a specious argument)

Two picks. Unfortunately, what research has been done on the value of draft picks puts the combined value of those two picks at about $1.5 million, less than half a win.

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That has to be an average or something. I would think a better way to look at it would be that picks add up to a certain % chance of being worth 2 WAR, 5 WAR, 10 WAR, 15 WAR, whatever. With decreasing odds, obviously for each.

The Cards seem to have gotten a lot of mileage out of their most recent supplemental picks. Guys like Jay and Lynn come to mind (I think Lynn might have been a 2nd rounder).

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Two picks. How does that change anything I said? We got the players and picks.

Lynn was a supplemental pick. 39th overall.

So the average WAR expectancy of a supplemental pick is ~.2 WAR over the course of his career?

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It's around that range, though what we're talking about is their surplus value over the $600 thousand or so bonus you'd expect to give them.

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top 100 from mlb.com

http://mlb.mlb.com/mlb/prospects/watch/ ... list=draft

apologies if its old news, i ain't in this forum often

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I find tinsel distracting.

The thing that the mlb draft has that the other drafts don't is the college players eing drafted that are still alive in the college world series are still playing at the time of the Draft.

The "still entirely too early but it's fun to talk about" latest mock draft updates.

mymlbdraft.com:
19: SS Addison Russell, FL HS
23. C Stryker Trahan, LA HS
36. RHP Nick Travieso, FL HS
52. RHP Pat Light, Monmouth
59. RHP Alec Rash, GA HS

Baseball America
19. 1B/3B Richie Shaffer, Clemson
23. 3B/OF Stephen Piscotty, Stanford

Walter Football (yeah, a football site, I know)
19. RHP Michael Wacha, Texas A&M
23. 3B/RHP Joey Gallo, NV HS


MLB Draft Insider
19. OF Courtney Hawkins, TX HS
23. SS Nolan Fontana, Florida
36. RHP Pat Light, Monmouth
52. SS Tanner Rahier, CA HS
59. RHP Kyle Hansen, St. John's

Draftsite.com
19. LHP Andrew Heaney, Oklahoma St.
23. RHP Zach Elfin, FL HS
36. SS Kenny Diekroger, Stanford
52. RHP Tyrel Hensley, OK HS
59. 2B LJ Mazzilli, UConn
82. RHP Kyle Hansen, St. John's

Prospectinsider.com
19. SS Gavin Cecchini, LA HS
23. OF David Dahl, AL HS

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