[Brad K]

Originally Posted by luckymann

Just by way of example, here is the recent run of SP we've faced in the OAK save, season 1975:

• Paul Haugen (never made it above A-ball IRL)
• Robert Hall (never even made A-ball IRL)
• Robert Giesler (again, A- was his highest IRL level)
• Jim Michal (one IRL season, spent at A-level)
• Jim Crawford, Frank Tanana (no problems with either)
• David Evans (one IRL season, spent at Rookie-level)

Now, one or two over that stretch? Sure.

But something is rotten in Denmark, methinks, to have so many guys making such big leaps and some of them are having multiple MLB-season careers in this timeline.

I agree that is too many however sample size requirements of large numbers apply to both the total sample size and the number of events being tracked. Five doesn't qualify as a large number.