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Ranger Drafts by GM

 

I previously looked at the 31 top Ranger Draft picks, but, when looking at it, I also got interested in how productive the average drafts were, and how productive the Various Ranger GMs were.   So, I crunched the data and came up with the following lists.  All WARs are Baseball-reference.com WAR's.  

Please note that some GMs can still improve with time, and it's probably premature to include Daniels.  It does show that anyone who expects a fairly short term bump from upcoming drafts will likely be disappointed. 

At any rate, here are the lists.

Ranger GMs by Average WAR per Draft
GM WAR
Eddie Robinson 27.78
Tom Grieve 27.15
Doug Melvin 22.30
Bob Short 11.90
Dan O'Brien 10.07
John Hart 9.88
George Selkirk 6.85
Joe Klein 5.65
Joe Burke 5.65
O'Brien/Robinson 4.20
Jon Daniels 0.18
All Drafts 17.10

 

Top 10 Ranger Drafts
GM Year WAR
Tom Grieve 1986 99.9
Joe Burke 1972 72.7
Eddie Robinson 1982 59.8
Doug Melvin 1996 45.8
Tom Grieve 1985 42.5
Doug Melvin 2001 42.4
John Hart 2003 39.2
Tom Grieve 1992 37.3
Doug Melvin 1999 31.3
Eddie Robinson 1979 27.8

 

 

Bottom 10 Ranger Drafts
GM Year WAR
Jon Daniels 2006 -2.6
John Hart 2004 -0.7
Dan O'Brien 1975 -0.3
Jon Daniels 2010 0
Jon Daniels 2009 0
Jon Daniels 2008 0
Tom Grieve 1993 0
John Hart 2002 0.2
Doug Melvin 1997 0.4
Joe Klein 1983 0.6