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From Ryne Sandberg to Nolan Ryan to Albert Pujols: Plenty of top MLB players were drafted after the fifth round

This year’s baseball draft has been shortened to five rounds, meaning the number of players picked will be significantly smaller than usual. That could leave several potential contributors among the large group of undrafted players.

Although expectations are higher for prospects taken in the first couple of rounds, players drafted much later can and do become major league standouts. Here's an All-Star team of sorts, comprised only of players taken after the fifth round.

(The career wins above replacement figures listed are from Baseball-Reference.com. Players are put at positions where they flourished as major leaguers — not necessarily the positions they played at the time they were drafted.