Wed, January 30, 2008
Revisiting First Round Picks Overall
by Dave Rouleau
While looking at a list of first overall picks in the draft since it was established in 1965, it was interesting to see that seven position players up until the 1999 draft had not posted at least 1,000 at-bats and three pitchers hadn’t won 20 games in their career. With teams putting so much emphasis on promoting from within, this failure to perform after being chosen among thousands of athletes can be quite distressing to front office personnel.
In my upcoming posts for Seamheads, I will be examining these players. To be fair, I will analyze only the 1965 to 1999 players, totaling 35 first overall picks, because drafted players since then have either not reached the majors or made enough appearances to justify an analysis of their performances so far.
Complete List - First Overall Picks
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