Draft History

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1954 Rule 5 Draft

Filters
Year
               
Wins Above Replacement
 
Player
To
From
Pos
 
11
22
1954
  Roberto Clemente
RF
20.3
 
0.0
94.3
94.3
-0.3
11
22
1954
  Jim King
RF
22.2
 
0.0
11.2
3.5
1.7
11
22
1954
  Glen Gorbous
RF
24.4
 
0.0
0.2
0.2
0.6
11
22
1954
  Mickey Grasso
C
34.5
 
-3.1
-0.1
-0.1
-0.1
11
22
1954
  Vicente Amor
Oakland
SW
22.3
 
0.0
-0.1
0.1
0.1
11
22
1954
  Ben Flowers
SW
27.4
 
0.6
-0.3
-0.1
0.3
11
22
1954
  Bobby Kline
Toronto
SS
25.8
 
0.0
-0.4
-0.4
-0.4
11
22
1954
  Bob Spicer
RP
29.6
 
0.0
-0.5
-0.5
-0.3
11
22
1954
  Joe Trimble
RP
24.1
 
0.0
-0.7
0.1
0.1
11
22
1954
  Roberto Vargas
SW
25.5
 
0.0
-1.4
-1.4
-1.4
11
22
1954
  Cloyd Boyer
SP
27.2
 
2.4
-1.8
-1.8
-1.8
11
22
1954
  Art Ceccarelli
SP
24.6
 
0.0
-3.3
-1.6
-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.

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Uniform images used with permission from Marc Okkonen, author of Baseball Uniforms of the 20th Century.
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Win Shares are calculated using the formula in the book Win Shares by Bill James