A historical look at Phillies drafts - a comparison of the different eras of scouting directors from Mike Arbuckle to Brian Barber ... just the data. It’s only data, there are no miracles 🤓.
I found this quote in a Philadelphia Inquirer article when Mr Arbuckle announced his retirement from baseball last year ... interesting.
“I learned a lot immediately from Paul Owens,” Arbuckle said. “My first two years I used Pope as a sounding board for so many things, and I learned so much. One of the things Pope told me was not to worry about the rounds they come from as long as you give your general manager a player-and-a-half every year for his big-league club. He told me if I do that, I’d be doing my job. I had never quantified it in that way, but that became the standard I worked from to judge myself.”
So ... I’m gonna quantify it in those standards 🤓
Scouting Directors draft classes :
Mike Arbuckle - 1992 to 2000
Marty Wolever - 2001 to 2014 ... Arbuckle was Asst. GM - Scouting/Player Development from 2001 to 2008 ... Wolever was Scouting Director from ‘01 to ‘14
Johny Almaraz - 2015 to 2019
Brian Barber - 2020
Here’s a review by each year’s draft ... reflects the number of picks, how many signed, how many reached the major leagues ( regardless of length of time and how many other draft picks reached the upper levels of minor league baseball ( AAA & AA ). I used the Baseball Cube as my research data base ... rather than retype all of the data here I’ve only provided names of those who made it to the show ... if ya want further details please go to Baseball Cube ... it’s all there.
1992 : 35 of 49 selections signed - 4 MLB, 6 AAA, 8 AA
Larry Mitchell - RHP - 5th rd
John Zuber - 1B - 12th rd
Bobby Estalella - C - 23rd rd
Tony Fiore - RHP - 28th rd
1993 : 30 of 42 selections signed - 6 MLB, 2 AAA, 6 AA
Wayne Gomes - RHP - 1st rd
Scott Rolen - 3B - 2nd rd
Rich Hunter - RHP - 14th rd
Dave Doster - INF - 27th rd
Brian O’Connor - LHP - 29th rd
Kevin Sefcik - INF - 33rd rd
1994 : 42 of 53 selections signed - 8 MLB, 6 AAA, 5 AA
Carlton Loewer - RHP - 1st rd
Ryan Nye - RHP - 2nd rd
Matt Beech - LHP - 7th rd
Jason Boyd - RHP - 8th rd
Wendell Magee - OF - 12th rd
Robert Dodd - LHP - 14th rd
Jose Flores - INF - 34th rd
Bronson Heflin - RHP - 37th rd
1995 : 39 of 54 selections signed - 5 MLB, 6 AAA, 3 AA
Reggie Taylor - OF - 1st rd
Dave Coggin - RHP - 1st rd
Marlon Anderson - INF - 2nd rd
Jason Kershner - LHP - 12th rd
Anthony Shumaker - LHP - 23rd rd
1996 : 38 of 50 selections signed - 2 MLB, 7 AAA, 5 AA
Adam Eaton - RHP - 1st rd
Jimmy Rollins - SS - 2nd rd
1997 : 38 of 44 selections signed - 5 MLB, 8 AAA, 0 AA
Randy Wolf - LHP - 2nd rd
Derrick Turnbow - RHP - 5th rd
Tom Jacquez - LHP - 6th rd
Johny Estrada - C - 17th rd
Andy Dominique - C - 26th rd
1998 : 35 of 44 selections signed - 7 MLB, 7 AAA, 3 AA
Pat Burrell - OF - 1st rd
Eric Valent - OF - 1st rd
Jorge Padilla - OF - 3rd rd
Jason Michaels - OF - 4th rd
Ryan Madson - RHP - 9th rd
Geoff Geary - RHP - 15th rd
Nick Punto - INF - 21st rd
1999 : 32 of 44 selections signed - 3 MLB, 3 AAA, 6 AA
Brett Myers - RHP - 1st rd
Marlon Byrd - OF - 10th rd
Frank Brooks - LHP - 13th rd
2000 : 29 of 38 selections signed - 3 MLB, 3 AAA, 2 AA
Chase Utley - 2B - 1st rd
Taylor Buchholz - RHP - 6th rd
Carlos Rivera - 1B/OF - 13th rd
Travis Chapman - 3B/1B - 17th rd
The Arbuckle scouting director era ... 1992 to 2000 ( 318 of 418 selections signed ( 76 % ) - 43 MLB ( 13 % of signed ) , 48 AAA (15 % of signed ) 38 AA ( 12 % of signed ) % of upper levels - 41 % of signed
2001 : 34 of 46 selections signed - 3 MLB, 4 AAA, 8 AA
Gavin Floyd - RHP - 1st rd
Ryan Howard - 1B - 5th rd
Chris Roberson - OF - 9th rd
2002 : 31 of 48 selections signed - 4 MLB, 2 AAA, 6 AA
Cole Hamels - LHP - 1st rd
Zack Segovia - RHP - 2nd rd
Scott Mathieson - RHP - 17th rd
Bobby Korecky - RHP - 19th rd
2003 : 30 of 48 selections signed - 3 MLB, 2 AAA, 2 AA
Michael Bourn - OF - 4th rd
Kyle Kendrick - RHP - 7th rd
Brad Ziegler - RHP - 20th rd
2004 : 34 of 50 selections signed - 5 MLB, 1 AAA, 2 AA
Greg Golson - OF - 1st rd
Jason Jaramillo - C - 2nd rd
JA Happ - LHP - 3rd rd
Lou Marson - C - 4th rd
Joe Bisenius - RHP - 12th rd
2005 : 28 of 49 selections signed - 5 MLB, 5 AAA, 3 AA
Mike Constanzo - 3B - 2nd rd
Matt Maloney - LHP - 3rd rd
Josh Outman - LHP - 10th rd
Tuffy Gosewisch - C - 11th rd
Mike Zagurski - LHP - 12th rd
2006 : 31 of 51 selections signed - 6 MLB, 5 AAA, 1 AA
Kyle Drabek - RHP - 1st rd
Adrian Cardenas - INF - 1st rd
Drew Carpenter - RHP - 2nd rd
Jason Donald - INF - 3rd rd
Quintin Berry - OF - 5th rd
Domonic Brown - OF - 20th rd
2007 : 31 of 52 selections signed - 7 MLB, 3 AAA, 3 AA
Joe Savery - LHP/1B - 1st rd
Travis D’Arnaud - C - 1st rd
Michael Taylor - OF - 5th rd
Tyson Brummett - RHP - 7th rd
Justin De Fratus - RHP - 11th rd
Brian Schlitter - RHP - 16th rd
Jake Diekman - LHP - 30th rd
2008 : 36 of 53 selections signed - 10 MLB, 6 AAA, 5 AA
Anthony Gose - OF/LHP - 2nd rd
Vance Worley - RHP - 3rd rd
Jonathan Pettibone - RHP - 3rd rd
Trevor May - RHP - 4th rd
Mike Stutes - RHP - 11th rd
BJ Rosenberg - RHP - 13th rd
Michael Schwimer - RHP - 14th rd
Tyler Cloyd - RHP - 18th rd
Steve Susdorf - OF - 19th rd
Jarred Cosart - RHP - 38th rd
2009 : 34 of 49 selections signed - 4 MLB, 4 AAA, 3 AA
Jonathan Singleton - 1B - 8th rd
Aaron Altherr - OF - 9th rd
Josh Zeid - RHP - 10th rd
Darin Ruf - 1B/OF - 20th rd
2010 : 30 of 50 selections signed - 5 MLB, 6 AAA, 2 AA
Jesse Biddle - LHP - 1st rd
Perci Garner - RHP - 2nd rd
Cameron Rupp - C - 3rd rd
David Buchanan - RHP - 7th rd
Mario Hollands - LHP - 10th rd
2011 : 30 of 51 selections signed - 9 MLB, 4 AAA, 2 AA
Roman Quinn - OF - 2nd rd
Adam Morgan - LHP - 3rd rd
Cody Asche - 3B/OF - 4th rd
Mitch Walding - 3B/1B - 5th rd
Ken Giles - RHP - 7th rd
Yacksel Rios - RHP - 12th rd
Colton Murray - RHP - 13th rd
Jesen Therrien - RHP - 17th rd
Brock Stassi - 1B - 33rd rd
2012 : 24 of 42 selections signed - 5 MLB, 2 AAA, 4 AA
Dylan Cozens - OF - 2nd rd
Zach Green - 3B/1B - 3rd rd
Cameron Perkins - OF - 6th rd
Hoby Milner - LHP - 7th rd
Drew Anderson - RHP - 21st rd
2013 : 29 of 41 selections signed - 3 MLB, 2 AAA, 4 AA
JP Crawford - SS - 1st rd
Andrew Knapp - C - 2nd rd
Mark Leiter - RHP - 22nd rd
2014 : 28 of 40 selections signed - 4 MLB, 3 AAA, 6 AA
Aaron Nola - RHP - 1st rd
Rhys Hoskins - 1B - 5th rd
Brandon Liebrandt - LHP - 6th rd
Austin Davis - LHP - 12th rd
The Wolever scouting director era ... 2001 to 2014 ( 435 of 670 selections signed ( 65 % ) - 73 MLB ( 17 % of signed ) , 51 AAA (12 % of signed ) 50 AA ( 11 % of signed ) - % of upper levels - 40 % of signed
2015 : 31 of 40 selections signed - 2 MLB, 7 AAA, 5 AA
Scott Kingery - UTL - 2nd rd
Bailey Falter - LHP - 5th rd
2016 : 30 of 40 selections signed - 3 MLB, 4 AAA, 6 AA
Mickey Moniak - OF - 1st rd
JoJo Romero - LHP - 4th rd
Cole Irvin - LHP - 5th rd
2017 : 30 of 40 selections signed - 4 MLB, 6 AAA, 9 AA
Adam Haseley - OF - 1st rd
Spencer Howard - RHP - 2nd rd
Nick Maton - IF - 7th rd
Connor Brogdon - RHP - 10th rd
2018 : 32 of 38 selections signed - 1 MLB, 2 AAA, 10 AA
Alec Bohm - 3B - 1st rd
2019 : 34 of 39 selections signed - 0 MLB, 0 AAA, 4 AA
The Almaraz scouting director era ... 2015 to 2019 ( 157 of 197 selections signed ( 80 % ) - 10 MLB ( 6 % of signed ) , 19 AAA (12 % of signed ) 34 AA ( 22 % of signed ) - % of upper levels - 40 % of signed
2020 : 4 of 4 selections signed - 0 MLB, 0 AAA, 0 AA ... too early 🤓
Just data ... Happy Day, Happy Baseball ⚾️
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