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Draft History

48 amateur drafts since 1965
5836 players drafted have made it to Major Leagues

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1942 Rule 5 Draft

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								Wins Above Replacement
Date			Player	To	From	Pos	Age	Before	After	Org	1st Yr
11	2	1942	Nels Potter	SLA	BOS	SP	31.2	0.1	24.7	20.6	3.9
11	2	1942	George Myatt	WS1	SLN	2B	28.4	0.8	5.4	5.4	0.5
11	2	1942	Ralph Hodgin	CHA	San Francisco	LF	27.7	-0.3	5.3	5.3	2.6
11	2	1942	Eddie Mayo	PHA	CHN	2B	32.5	-0.5	5.3	-1.8	-1.8
11	2	1942	Dick Barrett	CHN	Seattle	SP	36.1	-1.0	4.7	-0.5	4.0
11	2	1942	Dick Culler	CHA	St Paul	SS	27.8	-0.3	2.8	-0.0	-0.0
11	2	1942	Wally Hebert	PIT	San Diego	SP	35.2	0.9	2.6	2.6	2.6
11	2	1942	Steve Mesner	CIN	SLN	3B	24.8	-0.3	2.3	2.3	1.0
11	2	1942	Don Lang	BOS	NYA	3B	27.6	0.2	1.5	0.0	0.0
11	2	1942	Jack Salveson	CLE	Oakland	SW	28.8	0.2	0.7	0.7	0.3
11	2	1942	Joe Schultz	SLA	Memphis	C	24.2	-0.1	0.7	0.7	0.0
11	2	1942	Dee Moore	BRO	SLN	C	28.6	0.5	0.4	0.1	0.4
11	2	1942	Bill Swift	CHA	St Paul	SP	34.4	21.5	0.1	0.1	0.1
11	2	1942	Herb Bremer	BOS	Little Rock	C	29.0	-0.9	0.0	0.0	0.0
11	2	1942	George Washburn	CHN	NYA	SP	28.1	-0.2	0.0	0.0	0.0
11	2	1942	Tony Giuliani	WS1	Minneapolis	C	29.9	-2.4	-0.3	-0.3	-0.3
11	2	1942	Woody Rich	SLA	Indianapolis	SP	26.6	0.8	-0.3	0.0	0.0
11	2	1942	Eli Hodkey	PHI	BOS	SP	25.0	0.0	-0.3	-0.3	0.0
11	2	1942	Johnny Welaj	PHA	DET	CF	28.4	-0.4	-0.4	-0.4	-0.4
11	2	1942	Jim Mertz	WS1	Atlanta	SP	26.2	0.0	-1.0	-1.0	-1.0
11	2	1942	Ed Albosta	PIT	BRO	SP	24.0	-0.3	-1.1	-1.1	0.0
11	2	1942	Charlie Brewster	CIN	Milwaukee	SS	25.8	0.0	-1.2	-0.1	-1.1

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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