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Draft History

48 amateur drafts since 1965
5832 players drafted have made it to Major Leagues

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1939 Rule 5 Draft

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Year

								Wins Above Replacement
Date			Player	To	From	Pos	Age	Before	After	Org	1st Yr
10	3	1939	Nick Strincevich	BSN	NYA	SP	24.6	0.0	6.2	-2.1	-1.8
10	3	1939	Si Johnson	PHI	SLN	SP	33.0	3.3	4.4	2.1	-0.1
10	3	1939	Johnny Babich	PHA	NYA	SP	26.4	-4.1	3.7	3.7	4.0
10	3	1939	Jake Mooty	CHN	Syracuse	SP	26.5	-1.4	2.9	3.3	1.9
10	3	1939	Paul Dean	NY1	SLN	SP	27.1	9.4	0.7	0.5	0.3
10	3	1939	Paul Gehrman	WS1	CIN	SP	27.4	-0.3	0.0	0.0	0.0
10	3	1939	Dick Lanahan	PIT	WS1	SW	28.0	-0.6	-0.2	-0.2	0.0
10	3	1939	Chief Hogsett	PHA	Minneapolis	SP	35.9	7.1	-0.3	0.0	0.0
10	3	1939	Tom Turner	CHA	SLN	C	23.1	0.0	-0.3	-0.4	-0.7
10	3	1939	Tom Seats	DET	SLN	SP	29.0	0.0	-0.4	-0.4	-0.4
10	3	1939	Alan Strange	SLA	Seattle	SS	32.9	-0.8	-0.5	-0.5	-0.4
10	3	1939	Lefty Smoll	PHI	Atlanta	SW	25.5	0.0	-1.2	-1.2	-1.2

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The statistics used were obtained free of charge from The Baseball Databank.

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.
Interested parties may contact Retrosheet at "www.retrosheet.org".

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