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Draft History

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

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1927 Rule 5 Draft

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								Wins Above Replacement
Date			Player	To	From	Pos	Age	Before	After	Org	1st Yr
10	4	1927	Spud Davis	SLN	Buffalo	C	22.8	0.0	27.2	6.2	0.2
10	4	1927	Lefty O'Doul	NY1	San Francisco	LF	30.6	-1.9	27.2	4.8	1.2
10	4	1927	Pinky Whitney	PHI	New Orleans	3B	22.8	0.0	18.7	14.5	1.2
10	4	1927	Ray Benge	PHI	Waco	SP	25.5	0.4	13.2	12.1	2.3
10	4	1927	Johnnie Heving	BOS	Toledo	C	31.4	-0.6	0.9	1.1	0.1
10	4	1927	Art Delaney	BSN	Oakland	SP	32.7	0.8	0.8	0.8	1.3
10	4	1927	Bill Bayne	CLE	Toronto	SW	28.5	5.0	0.4	0.9	0.9
10	4	1927	Norm McMillan	CHN	St Paul	3B	32.0	-1.3	0.2	0.2	0.0
10	4	1927	Johnny Mann	CHA	Wichita Falls	3B	29.7	0.0	0.1	0.1	0.1
10	4	1927	Earl Williams	BSN	Ashville	C	24.7	0.0	-0.1	-0.1	-0.1
10	4	1927	Hugh McMullen	WS1	Louisville	C	25.8	-1.3	-0.1	-0.0	-0.0
10	4	1927	Frank Wilson	CLE	Milwaukee	LF	26.5	-0.6	-0.1	0.0	-0.1
10	4	1927	Howard Freigau	BRO	Kansas City	3B	25.2	2.1	-0.3	-0.3	-0.3
10	4	1927	Jim Joe Edwards	CIN	Seattle	SP	32.8	1.0	-0.8	-0.8	-0.8
10	4	1927	Chet Nichols	NY1	Jersey City	SP	30.3	-0.9	-1.3	-0.8	-0.8
10	4	1927	Lou Koupal	BRO	Indianapolis	SP	28.8	-0.1	-1.5	-0.7	0.1
10	4	1927	Buck Redfern	CHA	Fort Worth	SS	25.5	0.0	-1.7	-1.7	-1.2
10	4	1927	Clyde Manion	SLA	Newark	C	30.9	-0.9	-2.0	-0.9	-0.5

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Wins Above Replacement data courtesy of Baseball-Reference.com.

Defensive Regression Analysis data used here was obtained with permission from Michael Humphreys, author of Wizardry.

The transaction and player splits data used here was obtained free of charge from and is copyrighted by Retrosheet.
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Uniform images used with permission from Marc Okkonen, author of Baseball Uniforms of the 20th Century.
Images can also be viewed at the Hall of Fame online exhibit Dressed to the Nines

Win Shares are calculated using the formula in the book Win Shares by Bill James