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Draft History

48 amateur drafts since 1965
5831 players drafted have made it to Major Leagues

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1940 Rule 5 Draft

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								Wins Above Replacement
Date			Player	To	From	Pos	Age	Before	After	Org	1st Yr
10	15	1940	Bobby Estalella	SLA	Minneapolis	CF	29.5	2.6	11.6	-0.1	-0.1
10	1	1940	Oscar Judd	BOS	SLN	SP	32.6	0.0	7.9	3.7	-0.2
10	1	1940	Ace Adams	NY1	BRO	RP	30.6	0.0	6.6	6.6	-0.2
10	1	1940	Rube Melton	PHI	SLN	SP	23.6	0.0	5.7	2.2	0.2
10	1	1940	Bud Stewart	PIT	San Diego	LF	24.3	0.0	5.3	-0.5	-0.3
10	1	1940	Bob Scheffing	CHN	SLN	C	27.1	0.0	3.9	3.8	-0.1
10	1	1940	Mickey Livingston	BRO	Springfield	C	25.9	0.2	3.6	0.1	-0.6
10	1	1940	George Archie	WS1	Seattle	3B	26.4	-0.1	0.6	0.1	0.5
10	1	1940	Bill Swift	BRO	CHA	SP	32.3	21.3	0.3	0.2	0.2
10	1	1940	Red Howell	CLE	PHI	DH	31.7	0.0	0.1	0.1	0.1
10	1	1940	Eddie Carnett	BSN	NYA	LF	23.9	0.0	-0.2	-0.2	-0.2
10	1	1940	Pep Young	BRO	Atlanta	2B	33.1	6.7	-0.6	0.0	-0.1
10	4	1940	Dick Conger	PIT	DET	SW	19.5	0.1	-1.3	0.3	0.2
10	1	1940	Pete Suder	PHA	NYA	2B	24.5	0.0	-1.6	-1.6	-1.7

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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