Quality trumps quantity for this year’s newcomers, with the five incoming Legacies each of high quality, with two being Marquees.
These are the Legacy Players for the 1972 Season:
Baltimore Orioles: Al Bumbry (24.5 CONCEDED; 1428)
Boston Red Sox: Dwight Evans MARQUEE CONCEDED (67.2; 2505 (96%))
Chicago Cubs: Rick Reuschel (69.5; 343 GS)
Los Angeles Dodgers: Davey Lopes (42.3; 1207)
Philadelphia Phillies: Mike Schmidt ONE-CLUB MARQUEE (106.8; 2404)
Garry Maddox (36.8; 1328) was also eligible for the Phillies, but Schmidt’s higher WAR makes him the selection.
Bob Boone (27.4; 1125) was also eligible for the Phillies, but Schmidt’s higher WAR makes him the selection.
There are 140 rookies for this season, and the Draft will consist of 5 rounds.
The Draft order will be as follows (winning percentage from 1971 IRL season in brackets; bold indicates Legacy Pick in 1st Round):
Round 1
1. Philadelphia Phillies (414)
2. Boston Red Sox (525)
3. Chicago Cubs (512; dice roll)
4. Los Angeles Dodgers (549)
5. Baltimore Orioles (639)
6. Cleveland Indians (370)
7. San Diego Padres (379)
8. Texas Rangers (396)
9. Milwaukee Brewers (429)
10. Montreal Expos (441)
11. Minnesota Twins (463)
12. California Angels (469)
13. Houston Astros (488; dice roll)
14. Cincinnati Reds (488; dice roll)
15. Chicago White Sox (488; dice roll)
16. New York Yankees (506; dice roll)
17. Atlanta Braves (506; dice roll)
18. New York Mets (512; dice roll)
19. Kansas City Royals (528)
20. San Francisco Giants (556; dice roll)
21. St. Louis Cardinals (556; dice roll)
22. Detroit Tigers (562)
23. Pittsburgh Pirates (599)
24. Oakland Athletics (627)
Rounds 2 thru 12
1. Chicago White Sox (346)
2. San Diego Padres (389)
3. Milwaukee Brewers (401; dice roll)
4. Kansas City Royals (401; dice roll)
5. Washington Senators (432)
6. Montreal Expos (451)
7. Philadelphia Phillies (453)
8. Atlanta Braves (469; dice roll)
9. Cleveland Indians (469; dice roll)
10. St. Louis Cardinals (469; dice roll)
11. Detroit Tigers (488; dice roll)
12. Houston Astros (488; dice roll)
13. New York Mets (512)
14. Chicago Cubs (519)
15. California Angels (531; dice roll)
16. San Francisco Giants (531; dice roll)
17. Boston Red Sox (537)
18. Los Angeles Dodgers (540)
19. Pittsburgh Pirates (549; dice roll)
20. Oakland Athletics (549; dice roll)
21. New York Yankees (574)
22. Minnesota Twins (605)
23. Cincinnati Reds (630)
24. Baltimore Orioles (667)
Eligible PIT players: 7 position players + 4 pitchers = 11.
Given our first pick isn’t until 23rd overall and the small subset of eligible players available to us, we go into this Draft with very limited expectations of a meaningful return. That said, we know what we need and will apply the plan we have as much as we are able to.
These are the guys we end up taking:
1.
P Rich Gossage, 20 - For the second straight year we are left with little choice but to take an RP because of his eligible status and the fact that there simply isn’t a good enough trade bait options left in the pool for any other decision to be made. In this case, there’s plenty of cachet attached to the guy we do select, with Rich obviously an IRL HoFer.
2. P Dick Tidrow, 22 (ineligible)
- We do find a guy we think we’ll be able to flip and take him thinking our other option will likely last until our next pick. (He goes four picks later…)
3.
IF Chuck Goggin, 26
4. OF Craig Settles, 19 (ineligible)
5. P Richard Burgoon, 20 (ineligible)
- AAA fodder. The Scouts must have misheard me when I told them to keep an eye out for a future Graig Nettles…
Barely worth the bus fare.
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