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Draft History

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

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1980 Rule 5 Draft

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								Wins Above Replacement
Date			Player	To	From	Pos	Age	Before	After	Org	1st Yr
12	8	1980	Tom Candiotti	ML4	KCA	SP	23.3	0.0	41.5	0.9	0.0
12	8	1980	George Bell	TOR	PHI	LF	21.1	0.0	20.1	21.3	0.2
12	8	1980	Jody Davis	CHN	SLN	C	24.1	0.0	15.8	17.1	1.1
12	8	1980	Alan Wiggins	SDN	LAN	2B	22.8	0.0	7.0	7.7	0.1
12	8	1980	Roy Thomas	OAK	SLN	RP	27.5	0.8	2.4	0.0	0.0
12	8	1980	Tom Filer	OAK	NYA	SP	24.0	0.0	2.2	0.0	0.0
12	8	1980	Gary Gray	SEA	CLE	1B	28.2	-1.0	0.4	0.4	0.2
12	8	1980	Dave Wehrmeister	KCA	NYA	RP	28.1	-2.6	0.4	0.0	-0.1
12	8	1980	George Bjorkman	SFN	SLN	C	24.3	0.0	0.3	0.0	0.0
12	8	1980	Jim Wright	KCA	PHI	SW	25.8	0.0	0.2	0.2	0.5
12	8	1980	John Hobbs	MIN	SEA	RP	24.1	0.0	0.1	0.1	0.1
12	8	1980	Dan Whitmer	TOR	CAL	C	25.0	-0.1	-0.1	-0.1	-0.1
12	8	1980	Larry Rothschild	DET	CIN	RP	26.7	0.0	-0.1	-0.1	0.2
12	8	1980	Mario Ramirez	SDN	NYN	SS	23.2	-0.2	-0.1	-0.1	0.1
12	8	1980	Don Cooper	MIN	NYA	RP	23.9	0.0	-0.4	-0.3	0.1
12	8	1980	Brian Doyle	OAK	NYA	2B	25.9	-0.7	-0.4	-0.4	-0.4
12	8	1980	Jack O'Connor	MIN	MON	SW	22.5	0.0	-0.5	-0.6	-1.0
12	8	1980	Orlando Sanchez	SLN	PHI	C	24.3	0.0	-0.9	-0.8	-0.3

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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