Draft History

48 amateur drafts since 1965
5836 players drafted have made it to Major Leagues
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2003 Rule 5 Draft

Filters
Year
               
Wins Above Replacement
 
Player
To
From
Pos
 
12
15
2003
  Jose Bautista
RF
23.2
 
0.0
20.6
-0.2
-0.9
12
15
2003
  Willy Taveras
CF
22.0
 
0.0
5.1
4.4
-0.1
12
15
2003
  Jason Grilli
RP
27.1
 
0.0
4.5
-0.6
-0.6
12
15
2003
  Chris Shelton
1B
23.5
 
0.0
3.9
3.7
-0.2
12
15
2003
  Jeff Bennett
RP
23.5
 
0.0
1.3
-0.2
-0.2
12
15
2003
  Luis A. Gonzalez
2B
24.5
 
0.0
0.4
0.4
0.5
12
15
2003
  John Foster
RP
25.6
 
-0.0
0.2
0.0
0.0
12
15
2003
  Edgar Gonzalez
2B
25.5
 
0.0
0.2
0.0
0.0
12
15
2003
  Frank Brooks
RP
25.3
 
0.0
0.0
0.0
-0.0
12
15
2003
  Hector Luna
2B
23.9
 
0.0
-0.0
1.3
-0.2
12
15
2003
  Lino Urdaneta
RP
24.1
 
0.0
-0.0
0.0
0.0
12
15
2003
  Willie Collazo
RP
24.1
 
0.0
-0.0
0.0
0.0
12
15
2003
  Chris Mabeus
RP
24.8
 
0.0
-0.1
0.0
0.0
12
15
2003
  Matt White
SW
26.3
 
-0.6
-0.1
0.0
0.0
12
15
2003
  Colter Bean
RP
26.9
 
0.0
-0.2
0.0
0.0
12
15
2003
  Danny Sandoval
SS
24.7
 
0.0
-0.3
0.0
0.0
12
15
2003
  Jason Szuminski
RP
25.0
 
0.0
-0.3
0.0
-0.3
12
15
2003
  Rich Thompson
LF
24.6
 
0.0
-0.5
0.0
0.1
12
15
2003
  Andy Fox
SS
32.9
 
0.5
-1.0
-0.7
-1.0
12
15
2003
  Lenny DiNardo
SP
24.2
 
0.0
-1.2
-0.2
0.2

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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