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Draft History

48 amateur drafts since 1965
5829 players drafted have made it to Major Leagues

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1968 Expansion Draft

						Wins Above Replacement
Pick	Player	From	To	Pos	Age	Before	After	Org	1stYr
1	Ollie Brown	SFN	SDN	RF	24.7	0.2	10.3	6.7	2.6
2	Manny Mota	PIT	MON	LF	30.7	6.0	11.5	-0.1	2.1
3	Dave Giusti	SLN	SDN	RP	28.9	8.6	10.4	0.0	0.9
4	Mack Jones	CIN	MON	CF	29.9	14.2	6.4	6.4	3.8
5	Dick Selma	NYN	SDN	SW	24.9	3.6	6.3	0.3	3.0
6	John Bateman	HOU	MON	C	28.2	1.4	-0.6	0.6	-1.0
7	Al Santorini	ATL	SDN	SP	20.4	-0.2	0.4	-0.6	0.6
8	Gary Sutherland	PHI	MON	2B	24.0	-0.4	-3.5	-1.8	-0.6
9	Jose Arcia	CHN	SDN	2B	25.1	-0.9	-2.6	-2.6	-1.5
10	Jack Billingham	LAN	MON	SP	25.6	1.7	6.1	0.0	-0.0
11	Donn Clendenon	PIT	MON	1B	33.2	17.5	2.3	-0.2	0.2
12	Clay Kirby	SLN	SDN	SP	20.3	0.0	7.1	8.7	1.4
13	Jesus Alou	SFN	MON	RF	26.6	-0.1	0.9	0.0	-1.8
14	Fred Kendall	CIN	SDN	C	19.7	0.0	1.0	1.9	-0.3
15	Mike Wegener	PHI	MON	SP	22.0	0.0	-0.6	-0.6	0.3
16	Jerry Morales	NYN	SDN	CF	19.7	0.0	-1.9	2.3	-0.0
17	Skip Guinn	ATL	MON	RP	24.0	-0.0	-0.7	0.0	-0.9
18	Nate Colbert	HOU	SDN	1B	22.5	-1.2	15.4	17.3	2.6
19	Bill Stoneman	CHN	MON	SP	24.5	-0.2	4.7	5.6	0.0
20	Zoilo Versalles	LAN	SDN	SS	28.8	13.5	-1.0	0.0	0.7
21	Maury Wills	PIT	MON	SS	36.0	32.6	7.2	-0.1	3.9
22	Frank Reberger	CHN	SDN	SW	24.4	-0.1	0.9	1.0	1.0
23	Larry Jackson	PHI	MON	SP	37.4	52.2	0.0	0.0	0.0
24	Jerry Davanon	SLN	SDN	SS	23.1	0.0	2.0	-1.0	-0.4
25	Bob Reynolds	SFN	MON	RP	21.7	0.0	2.9	-0.3	-0.3
26	Larry Stahl	NYN	SDN	LF	27.3	1.7	0.7	0.6	-0.1
27	Dan McGinn	CIN	MON	RP	24.9	-0.2	-3.9	-2.3	0.9
28	Dick Kelley	ATL	SDN	SP	28.8	1.8	1.7	1.7	1.3
29	Jose Herrera	HOU	MON	LF	26.5	-0.1	0.1	0.1	0.2
30	Al Ferrara	LAN	SDN	LF	28.8	2.4	2.7	2.6	1.9
31	Mike Corkins	SFN	SDN	SW	22.4	0.0	0.8	0.8	-0.6
32	Jimy Williams	CIN	MON	SS	25.0	-0.2	0.0	0.0	0.0
33	Tom Dukes	HOU	SDN	RP	26.1	-0.8	-0.3	-0.8	-0.5
34	Remy Hermoso	ATL	MON	2B	22.0	0.0	-0.6	-0.9	-0.9
35	Rick James	CHN	SDN	SP	21.0	-0.5	0.0	0.0	0.0
36	Mudcat Grant	LAN	MON	SP	33.2	15.7	6.0	-0.3	0.1
37	Tony Gonzalez	PHI	SDN	CF	32.1	23.6	3.4	0.9	4.4
38	Jerry Robertson	SLN	MON	SP	25.0	0.0	1.1	1.1	1.1
39	Dave Roberts	PIT	SDN	SP	24.1	0.0	23.8	10.6	-0.2
40	Don Shaw	NYN	MON	RP	24.6	1.4	-0.4	-0.8	-0.8
41	Ty Cline	SFN	MON	CF	29.3	3.9	2.0	1.2	1.2
42	Ivan Murrell	HOU	SDN	LF	25.5	-1.3	2.1	1.8	0.9
43	Garry Jestadt	CHN	MON	3B	21.6	0.0	-0.3	-0.2	-0.2
44	Jim Williams	LAN	SDN	LF	21.5	0.0	0.2	0.2	0.2
45	Carl Morton	ATL	MON	SP	24.7	0.0	18.2	3.1	0.2
46	Billy McCool	CIN	SDN	RP	24.3	5.2	-0.6	-0.3	-0.3
47	Larry Jaster	SLN	MON	SP	24.8	5.0	-1.3	-0.8	-0.8
48	Roberto Pena	PHI	SDN	SS	31.5	-0.4	-0.9	-0.2	-0.2
49	Ernie McAnally	NYN	MON	SP	22.2	0.0	-0.9	-0.9	0.0
50	Al McBean	PIT	SDN	RP	30.4	15.5	-0.3	0.1	0.1
51	Rafael Robles	SFN	SDN	SS	21.0	0.0	-0.8	-0.8	-0.4
52	Jim Fairey	LAN	MON	LF	24.1	-0.3	-1.1	-1.0	-0.4
54	Coco Laboy	SLN	MON	3B	29.3	0.0	-1.0	-1.0	2.4
55	Ron Slocum	PIT	SDN	3B	23.3	0.0	-0.4	-0.4	0.2
56	John Boccabella	CHN	MON	C	27.3	-0.0	-0.3	0.6	-0.7
57	Steve Arlin	PHI	SDN	SP	23.1	0.0	0.8	1.8	-0.4
58	Ron Brand	HOU	MON	C	28.8	0.1	0.2	0.2	0.7
59	Cito Gaston	ATL	SDN	CF	24.6	-0.7	-0.0	1.3	-0.8

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