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This is Jerry Dipoto's 15th Season as a major League GM/President of Baseball operations.
He has drafted 216 position players.
25 have made the Big Leagues 11.6%
11 have a positive WAR in the Big Leagues 5.1%
5 have a career WAR over 2.0 in the Big Leagues 2.3%
3 have a career WAR over 5.0 in the Big Leagues 1.4%

The total career WAR for the 25 players he drafted that made the Big Leagues is 45.5 The vast majority of that is coming from 3 players Cal Raleigh, David Fletcher and Taylor Ward who combined for 41 WAR. the other 22 Big leaguers that he drafted have an average career WAR of 0.2

The biggest problem that this team has is that the President of baseball operations and his staff just flat out can't identify hitting talent. I think an analysis of his free agent signings and trade acquisitions would reveal similar results. The bum needs to go. See if you can keep the scouts on the pitching side and rebuild the whole philosophy on the position player side of the organization.

Here is a list of the players that Dipoto has drafted who have made the Big Leagues along with their career WAR.

2012 Angles 21 position players drafted
Eric Staments -0.7 WAR
Sherman Johnson -0.2 WAR
Anthony Bemboom -0.6 WAR

2013 Angels 17 position players drafted
Michael Hermosillo -0.5 WAR

2014 Angels 18 position players drafted
John Bormann 0.0 WAR

2015 Angels 25 position players drafted
Taylor Ward 12.4 WAR
Jahmai Jones -0.2 WAR
David Fletcher 10.3 WAR

2016 Mariners 21 position players drafted
Kyle Lewis 1.8 WAR
Donovan Walton 0.3 WAR

2017 Mariners 17 position players drafted
Evan White -0.7 WAR
David Banuelos 0.0 WAR
Heston Kjerstad -1.1 WAR

2018 Mariners 19 position players drafted
Cal Raleigh 18.3 WAR

2019 Mariners 18 position players drafted
Austin Shenton 0.1 WAR
Cade Marlowe 1.1 WAR
Christian Encarnacion-Strand -1.2 WAR
Jacob Hurtubise -0.3 WAR

2020 Mariners 3 position players drafted
Zach Deloach -0.1 WAR

2021 Mariners 10 position players drafted
Harry Ford 0.4 WAR
Edwin Arroyo -0.4 WAR

2022 Mariners 9 position players drafted
Cole Young 4.3 WAR
Tyler Locklear -1.3 WAR

2023 Mariners 12 position players drafted
Colt Emerson 0.3 WAR
Ben Williamson 2.3 WAR

2024-2026 26 position players drafted. No one has made the big leagues yet.

There's a major piece missing from this analysis.

I have said this elsewhere. Not sure I have said it here. The day he gets fired will be a top 10 best day of my life. No exaggeration.

On the bright side, having been a mediocre relief pitcher during his career has given him an eagle's eye on spotting mediocre relief pitchers to stock our bullpen with.

This is the second time we've hired a GM that the Angels fired with the same results, just like all of their players that they let go and we gobble up.

GL_Storm wrote: ↑

Tue Aug 11, 2026 5:21 pm

There's a major piece missing from this analysis.

Care to share or are we supposed to guess? lol

How does this compare to the results produced by a good GM?

bhofferb wrote: ↑

Tue Aug 11, 2026 7:44 pm

How does this compare to the results produced by a good GM?

Find a good GM that has been at it for that long and I'm sure Captain will run the numbers for you. lol

bhofferb wrote: ↑

Tue Aug 11, 2026 7:44 pm

How does this compare to the results produced by a good GM?

Here's Jack Z's drafts of position players only:

2009: 28 drafted, 7 made it including Kyle Seager, Dustin Ackley and Nick Franklin
2010: 18 drafted, 2 made it, nobody of note
2011: 23 drafted, 3 made it including Brad Miller
2012: 21 drafted, 6 made it including Chris Taylor, Mike Zunino and Mike Yastrzemski (I didn't know we drafted him!)
2013: 24 drafted, 5 made it including Tyler O'Neill
2014: 19 drafted, 1 made it, nobody of note
2015: 15 drafted, 2 made it, nobody of note

That's rather blah but better than DiPoto. Here's Bill Bavasi's drafts (Mariners only):

2004: 30 drafted, 4 made it including Michael Saunders
2005: 23 drafted, 2 made it, nobody of note
2006: 16 drafted, 1 made it, nobody of note
2007: 16 drafted, 1 made it, nobody of note
2008: 24 drafted, 0 made it

HOLY SHIT, that's beyond horrendous. Let's try Pat Gillick's drafts:

1999: 23 drafted, 4 made it including Willie F. Bloomquist
2000: 23 drafted, 4 made it, nobody of note
2001: 26 drafted, 2 made it, nobody of note
2002: 27 drafted, 5 made it, nobody of note
2003: 20 drafted, 1 made it, Adam Jones

That's almost as bad as Bavasi, thankfully Gillick had other talents.

I looked up the drafts in which we selected Junior and A-Rod were selected and in those drafts no other position players of note made it to the bigs.

Looks like Jack Z is actually the best of these drafters and the best drafting the franchise did was through much of the '80s.

Jerry and his scouts (position players) have overstayed their welcome.