Miami Marlins Draft History

_{All tables below are based on the amount of WAR each player produced during their first seven seasons in Major League Baseball. The WAR totals for each draft class include both Pitching and Hitting WAR, but excludes any player that did not sign with their drafting team. The total WAR also reflects the total value the drafted player provided, not just the value to his drafting team.}

_{^{*Data accurate through 2019 season.}}

Top Five Draft Classes

Year	Team	WAR
2010	Florida Marlins	56.0
2007	Florida Marlins	33.2
2000	Florida Marlins	29.5
1999	Florida Marlins	27.6
2002	Florida Marlins	24.2

Bottom Five Draft Classes

Year	Team	WAR
1997	Florida Marlins	-1.4
2003	Florida Marlins	-1.3
1993	Florida Marlins	-0.3
1998	Florida Marlins	0.5
2001	Florida Marlins	0.9

This list excludes any season past 2010, since those draft classes have a multitude of active players.

Top Five Draft Picks

Year Drafted	Round	Overall Pick	Name	WAR
2010	1	23	Christian Yelich	33.6
2007	2	76	Giancarlo Stanton	27.3
1999	1	2	Josh Beckett	20.8
1992	1	28	Charles Johnson	19.9
1996	1	9	Mark Kotsay	19.0

List made from top five WAR values alone.

Five Biggest Busts

Year Drafted	Round	Overall Pick	Name	WAR
1994	1	5	Josh Booty	0.1
1995	1	6	Jaime Jones	No MLB Experience
2008	1	6	Kyle Skipworth	0.0
2002	1	11	Jeremy Hermida	1.8
1997	1	12	Aaron Akin	No MLB Experience

List made from first round picks that produced less than 5.0 WAR in their first seven seasons and ordered by lowest overall pick.

Top Five Value Picks

Year Drafted	Round	Overall Pick	Name	WAR
2000	17	491	Josh Willingham	11.3
2009	21	638	AJ Ramos	4.3
2005	22	666	Logan Morrison	2.9
2008	18	538	Tom Koehler	2.9
1993	38	1079	Dave Berg	1.2

List made from top five WAR values where a player was drafted outside of the first ten rounds.

Top Five Unsigned Draft Picks

Year Drafted	Round	Overall Pick	Name	WAR
2004	28	848	Charlie Blackmon	16.2
1997	8	246	Cliff Lee	14.7
2009	44	1328	Ken Giles	9.7
1999	42	1254	Adam LaRoche	7.2
1998	18	550	Adam LaRoche	7.2

List made from top five WAR values where a player did not sign with the team.

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