Comments on: The New Toys http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/index.php/the-new-toys/ Daily baseball statistical analysis and commentary Sun, 12 Feb 2012 13:42:16 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: obsessivegiantscompulsive http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/index.php/the-new-toys/#comment-84153 obsessivegiantscompulsive Thu, 09 Jul 2009 13:32:05 +0000 http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/?p=6472#comment-84153 Not only that, but if you go by a higher standard - meaning that most people, when they think of first round draft, they think of getting a good player - then my draft study found that the bust rate is about 55% for the Top 5 picks overall, about 80% for the Top 5-20 picks, and 90% for the 21-30 picks in the first round. Good article on the difficulties that international prospects face when integrated into the major league baseball farm systems. There is just no easy comparison when American players have known certain baseball facts since T-ball that their international counterparts are learning for the first time at 16, 17, 18 years old in rookie ball. Not only that, but if you go by a higher standard – meaning that most people, when they think of first round draft, they think of getting a good player – then my draft study found that the bust rate is about 55% for the Top 5 picks overall, about 80% for the Top 5-20 picks, and 90% for the 21-30 picks in the first round.

Good article on the difficulties that international prospects face when integrated into the major league baseball farm systems. There is just no easy comparison when American players have known certain baseball facts since T-ball that their international counterparts are learning for the first time at 16, 17, 18 years old in rookie ball.

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