MLBers - Simply put, players who are, or have been in the majors. I did not set an innings or plate appearances limit, so Reid Brignac and Carl Crawford are weighed equally. I did not count Jason Hammel twice.
T10 Rounds - Pretty self explanatory, these are the players selected in the first 10 rounds of the draft. Not just the Rays top 10 picks.
With Rays - This is to say with the Rays when they debuted, not currently with the Rays.
Now, I know some people prefer cold and hard data, so here are the tables with this same information. Note: "Total" is the amount of players drafted that year.
| Year | MLBers | T10 | With Rays | Total |
| 1996 | 8 | 2 | 5 | 97 |
| 1997 | 8 | 4 | 5 | 92 |
| 1998 | 6 | 3 | 4 | 47 |
| 1999 | 7 | 4 | 5 | 50 |
| 2000 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 47 |
| 2001 | 9 | 5 | 7 | 50 |
| 2002 | 6 | 5 | 2 | 50 |
| 2003 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 50 |
| 2004 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 50 |
| 2005 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 50 |
| 2006 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 50 |
| 2007 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 50 |
For those too lazy to add those columns up, here are the totals:
| MLBers | T10 | With Rays | Total | % |
| 60 | 32 | 41 | 683 | 8.8 |
Take 2006 and 2007 out of the equation and we get...
| MLBers | T10 | With Rays | Total | % |
| 58 | 30 | 39 | 583 | 9.9 |
It's hard to evaluate this information. I don't know the league average over these years, and while the raw numbers look poor, hitting on ~10% of your draft picks seems fair.
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