quote from Gammons via Baseball Prospectus

[SoCalBrewfan]

Earlier this week BP said:

 

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In his Monday column, Peter Gammons raised a point that illustrates why the MLB draft is more fun than the draft for the NBA or NFL:

 

"One club that has done extensive predictability studies offers this stat: a team has as good a chance of getting a major-league pitcher selecting a high school pitcher in the 20th round as the first, and in the case of college pitchers, the sixth round is as likely to produce a major-league pitcher as the first."

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So maybe we shouldn't be too depressed that the Brewers didn't take any pitchers until the 6th round...

[mothershipconnection]

Didn't he also go on to say that drafting RHPs if even more unpredictable? I believe he gave a % of starting RHPs in the majors who went before round 10 (or somewhere around there) and those who went later and it was pretty comparable.