There is not a right or wrong way to build a team, each team has its own philosophy and some are successful and some are not. This article is not to argue which philosophy is correct it’s intended for those curious minds that just wonder, like mine, which playoff contenders is the most “home” grown.
The following will show the American League teams in
contention and the players that were drafted by that particular team. Again, I am only doing the teams that I
believe still has a chance to make the playoffs via Division Winner or Wild
Card. I am also including foreign born
players that were not drafted, because MLB teams need to go through many steps
to obtain one of these particular players and most countries will not allow
their players to be eligible for the draft.
American League East: (% drafter players of Current Roster)Tampa Bay Rays: (24%) Boston Red Sox (40%) Baltimore Orioles (28%)
Alex Cobb Drake Britton Wei-Yin Chin
Jeremy Hellickson Felix Doubroni Jim Johnson
Jake McGee Jon Lester Brian Matusz
David Price Junichi Tazawa Matt Weters
Evan Longoria Brandon Workman Manny Machado
Desmond Jennings Xander Bogaerts Brian Roberts
Will Middlebrooks Nick Markakis
Dustin Pedroia
Jacoby Ellisbury
Daniel Nava
American League Central:
(% drafter players of Current Roster)
Detroit Tigers: (40%) Cleveland Indians:(16%)
Rick Porcello Cody Allen
Bruce Rondon Danny Salazar
Drew Smyly Lonnie Chisenhall
Justin Verlander Jason Kipnis
Bryan Holaday
Alex Avila
Omar Infante
Ramon Santiago
Andy Dirks
Don Kelly
Detroit Tigers: (40%) Cleveland Indians:(16%)
Rick Porcello Cody Allen
Bruce Rondon Danny Salazar
Drew Smyly Lonnie Chisenhall
Justin Verlander Jason Kipnis
Bryan Holaday
Alex Avila
Omar Infante
Ramon Santiago
Andy Dirks
Don Kelly
American League West:
(% drafter players of Current Roster)
Texas Ranger: (40%) Oakland
A’s :(20%)
Yu Darvish Sean Doolittle
Derek Holland Sonny Gray
Martin Perez A.J. Griffin
Robbie Ross Dan Straily
Tanner Scheppers Yoenis Cespedes
Ian Kinsler
Mitch Moreland
Jurickson Profar
Craig Gentry
Leonys Martin
Wild Card: (% drafter
players of Current Roster)Yu Darvish Sean Doolittle
Derek Holland Sonny Gray
Martin Perez A.J. Griffin
Robbie Ross Dan Straily
Tanner Scheppers Yoenis Cespedes
Ian Kinsler
Mitch Moreland
Jurickson Profar
Craig Gentry
Leonys Martin
New York Yankees : (48%) Kansas City Royals: (48%)
Joba Chamberlain Louis Coleman
Phil Hughes Aaron Crow
Ivan Nova Kelvin Herrera
Andy Pettitte Luke Hochevar
Mariano Rivera Greg Holland
David Robinson Salvador Perez
Adam Warren Eric Hosmer
Austin Romaine Mike Moustakas
Robinson Cano Jarrod Dyson
Eduardo Nunez Alex Gordon
Brett Gardner David Lough
Alfonso Soriano Billy Butler
Joba Chamberlain Louis Coleman
Phil Hughes Aaron Crow
Ivan Nova Kelvin Herrera
Andy Pettitte Luke Hochevar
Mariano Rivera Greg Holland
David Robinson Salvador Perez
Adam Warren Eric Hosmer
Austin Romaine Mike Moustakas
Robinson Cano Jarrod Dyson
Eduardo Nunez Alex Gordon
Brett Gardner David Lough
Alfonso Soriano Billy Butler
*All Research for the Players was through www.baseball-reference.com
Prior to the research I had a pre-notion of which teams
would be towards the top and I was correct on some of them. There were some surprises, such as the New
York Yankees having forty-eight percent of their major league squad being from
their farm system. I was equally surprised
that the Oakland A’s had only twenty percent on theirs
This should be a lesson learned: beware of assumptions. So many years’ baseball fans have heard comments
that applied that the Yankees are big spenders and will buy what is needed and
that the A’s are built through the draft.
As you can see here facts prove different.
Your Yankee stat is a little skewed because Soriano and Pettitte are on the team because of trades or free agent signings. They should be at 40% with 10 players like a lot of other teams. But yeah, the Yanks keep a lot of players, and a lot of the A's success comes not from their drafts, but from trading people who are going to be free agents and replenishing their farm system that way.
ReplyDeleteThey were drafted by the Yankees but were traded and then traded back to the team. So you are right it is a little skewed because the two players in questions didn't stay with the team.
DeleteI think you have a typo for the Indians players. I believe those are all Red Sox players.
ReplyDeleteThanks
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