The MLB amateur draft happened a couple of weeks ago. As I was listening to a recent episode of the Fangraphs podcast Effectively Wild they had on Ryan Nelson a baseball blogger who did his own research into how teams rank as either “good” or “bad” at drafting. The podcast had mostly to do with methodology, but his post has the hard numbers of his data crunching and the Orioles as you might have guessed, are the worst team when it comes to getting value from draft picks
First and foremost, I’ll try to distill his methodology the best I can.