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Draft Effectiveness

With the first ever 5 round draft done I've been wondering how effective are those later rounds that cost MLB a lot every year. Are those rounds really useful?

Given how baseball works, you need at least 5 years, ideally 10, to judge a draft so lets dig into 2010 (all are 27 or older now)

Round # then how many with 30/20/10 WAR and how many reached the majors. All data via BR. I generally view 10 WAR as a strong player (Ricky Romero has alternated between 9.9 and 10.1 depending on latest updates to bWAR so he is the divider, at 20 relievers get considered for the HOF, 50 for all others).