Draft History - The Baseball Gauge @ Seamheads.com

Draft History

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

Links
Baseball-Reference	Baseball America	BR Bullpen	Wiki (Expansion)
MLB.com	Retrosheet	Wiki (Amateur)	Wiki (Rule 5)

1961 Expansion Draft

						Wins Above Replacement
Pick	Player	From	To	Pos	Age	Before	After	Org	1stYr
1	Eddie Bressoud	SFN	HOU	SS	29.4	4.0	13.1	0.0	4.8
2	Hobie Landrith	SFN	NYN	C	31.6	2.6	0.3	0.2	0.6
3	Bob Aspromonte	LAN	HOU	3B	23.3	-0.8	2.0	4.3	2.1
4	Elio Chacon	CIN	NYN	2B	25.0	0.2	1.2	1.2	1.2
5	Bob Lillis	SLN	HOU	SS	31.4	-0.9	-2.7	-2.7	1.3
6	Roger Craig	LAN	NYN	SP	31.6	7.6	5.8	4.4	2.5
7	Dick Drott	CHN	HOU	SP	25.3	0.2	-1.3	-1.3	-0.4
8	Gus Bell	CIN	NYN	CF	32.9	16.2	-1.0	-1.5	-0.9
9	Al Heist	CHN	HOU	CF	34.0	2.1	-0.8	-0.8	-0.8
10	Joe Christopher	PIT	NYN	RF	25.8	-0.9	1.0	1.3	0.1
11	Roman Mejias	PIT	HOU	RF	31.2	-0.9	2.2	2.5	2.5
12	Felix Mantilla	ML1	NYN	2B	27.2	-0.7	7.3	1.1	1.1
13	George Williams	PHI	HOU	2B	22.0	0.0	0.1	0.1	0.1
14	Gil Hodges	LAN	NYN	1B	37.5	44.3	0.6	0.6	0.6
15	Jesse Hickman	PHI	HOU	RP	22.6	0.0	-0.2	0.0	0.0
16	Craig Anderson	SLN	NYN	RP	23.3	1.1	-3.7	-3.7	-2.7
17	Merritt Ranew	ML1	HOU	C	23.4	0.0	0.4	-0.0	-0.0
18	Ray Daviault	SFN	NYN	RP	27.4	0.0	-1.2	-1.2	-1.2
19	Don Taussig	SLN	HOU	LF	29.6	0.4	-0.0	-0.0	-0.0
20	John DeMerit	ML1	NYN	CF	25.8	-0.9	-0.3	-0.3	-0.3
21	Bobby Shantz	PIT	HOU	SP	36.0	30.0	4.7	0.8	2.1
22	Al Jackson	PIT	NYN	SP	25.8	-0.2	5.9	2.9	2.2
23	Norm Larker	LAN	HOU	1B	30.8	4.9	0.6	1.0	1.0
24	Sammy Drake	CHN	NYN	2B	27.0	-0.4	-0.5	-0.5	-0.5
25	Sam Jones	SFN	HOU	SP	35.8	17.9	0.1	0.0	0.9
26	Chris Cannizzaro	SLN	NYN	C	23.4	0.0	6.3	3.5	0.5
28	Choo Choo Coleman	PHI	NYN	C	24.1	-0.6	-0.1	-0.1	0.7
29	Ken Johnson	CIN	HOU	SP	28.3	0.9	17.2	8.5	2.1
30	Ed Bouchee	CHN	NYN	1B	28.6	8.3	0.1	0.1	0.1
31	Dick Gernert	CIN	HOU	1B	33.0	6.6	-0.1	-0.1	-0.1
32	Bobby Gene Smith	PHI	NYN	LF	27.4	0.3	-1.0	-0.2	-0.8
33	Ed Olivares	SLN	HOU	RF	22.9	-0.8	0.0	0.0	0.0
34	Sherman Jones	CIN	NYN	RP	26.7	0.2	-0.5	-0.5	-0.5
35	Jim Umbricht	PIT	HOU	RP	31.1	-0.2	4.3	4.3	2.3
36	Jim Hickman	SLN	NYN	RF	24.4	0.0	13.3	3.6	1.4
37	Jim Golden	LAN	HOU	SP	25.6	-0.3	1.6	1.6	1.7

Any questions, comments, suggestions?? Please contact the webmaster at BaseballGauge@gmail.com

The statistics used were obtained free of charge from The Baseball Databank.

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.
Interested parties may contact Retrosheet at "www.retrosheet.org".

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