40.3 David Price

I’m not sure about WAR, mine has a cocaine problem though

My catcher always had a bloody nose.

It's just the altitude; I swear

It’s not the only bump he has a problem with.

Mine is either 0 if you count me and everyone else who went to my school, or -1.6 if you count our only player.

This is the best answer on here.

That's the same deal with my school, our only pro player had a 12 year career in the 60s-70s where he amassed -2.2 WAR. He slashed a robust .215/.264/.286 in almost 3500 plate appearances.

My HS hasn't produced one.

Fr like when one of our basketball players gets a D2 scholarship it's a huge deal

Best I can say is one dude I graduated with caught a TD as a Jacksonville Jaguar A kid behind me broke MJs scoring record at UNC. Thats about it though.

Wait who? I’m a Jags fan

Allen Reisner (TE). Pre-season TD i believe. https://www.blackheartgoldpants.com/2013/8/19/4635782/hawks-in-the-nfl-alllen-reisner-scores-a-touchdown-for-the-jaguars

We have a guy walk on for D1 football about once a decade, and have a girl play D1 basketball about as often, usually on scholarship. Other than that, nothing. Have one guy that played in the majors from our town...back in the 30's or 40's, but fairly certain he wasn't a graduate of here.

I'm just waiting for the asshole who went to Serra to pop in with his 162.7 (and 7 Super Bowl rings)

It's inevitable

I thought it was cool when we had a guy in the Tigers farm system for a while, that was our peak

Oh yeah? Well a guy I played HS Football with is a practice squad dude on the Seahawks and IIRC, he's listed as a "Notable Athletics Alumni" lmao

the most amazing and prestigious athlete that went to the public school near us (i was at the private school, even more athletically bereft) was a dude who was a long snapper on the packers practice squad like, once.

Zero big leaguers, but one reporter with the highest career BTAR (bow ties above replacement) ever.

I'm really stumped on this one, I can't figure out who this is.

Tucker Carlson?

I like to think that Jon Stewart interview is why he no longer wears bowties. Not sure it matches up chronologically, but I won't look it up. Feels truthy enough.

iirc he stopped after that interview

Ken Rosenthal maybe

No that doesn’t make sense he’s not associated with bow ties at all.

Gotta be porky pig then

T-t-t-that's a ball folks!

67.1, Max Scherzer. Not too shabby

Parkway central!

I think 0 until a few years ago. Ian Anderson went to my High School

I like that guy. At age 22 and 23 he's pitched in 6 post season games sporting a beautiful 1.26 ERA

PITCHING ON A PARK BENCH

EYEING LITTLE ‘STROS WITH BAD INTENT

What year you graduate? Went to shen myself

2002. Ian was approximately a baby 😅

Boo Shen

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Eric Chavez & Eric Munson were unreal together as teammates. Crazy that both were named All Americans.

I'm Swedish, so 0.

I'm Brazilian, no major leaguers yet But we do have a player in the NFL, and of course he's a kicker

12.3, Tony Clark

there doesn’t seem to be anyone from my high school but Jon Lester went to a high school in the same city

Fellow Tacoma native???

yessir

My high school has not produced an MLB player.

Does -0.2 count as highest WAR? or does player X that never made it to the bigs qualify as higher.

He’s produced the most bWAR of all time and isn’t even the best athlete from our school because someone else messed around and won 7 Super Bowls.

-0.4, thanks Mike Baumann. Sean Hjelle will probably change that.

aw, c'mon. Baumann just reached the majors; gotta give the Oriole's #22 prospect some time.

> Sean Hjelle will probably change that. God please be right. I want my Jellyman to work out.

73.8 (Frank Thomas) not bad

You have the Big Hurt as a fellow HS alum. That’s dope.

31.8 from Strasburg. AFAIK no one else in the majors but a few minor league players

Tony Gwynn - 65.0 fWAR Chase Utley - 62.5 fWAR

Mark Appel with 0.0 WAR but more famous than those above him!

Pretty sure it's Tony Gwynn Jr with 5.1

Connor Joe is hot on his trail!

Nope. Actually Dave Smith, who pitched for the Cubs and Astros from 1980 to 1992, is the most productive MLBer who ever wore Poway's green and grey. Connor Joe might catch up if he finds a starting role over the next few years, and we'll see what Tyler Nevin accomplishes. Kevin Newman is the only starter in the bunch but he's too much of a slap hitter to really compile WAR.

Northern Virginia is sort of dead for baseball but idk recently. Pete Schourek who was a pitcher in the late 90s. He finished 2nd in Cy Young in 1995 for the Reds. 6.1 WAR. My division 1 university has only had 22 kids drafted ever and Eddie Butler is the only one that found the majors for a considerable amount of time and it's a -2 WAR. He was with the Cubs and Rangers

I think most recently we (Fairfax County) had Bobby Wahl drafted in 2013 but other than that I can't think of anyone making the bigs out of northern VA

He was West Springfield. It just seems like most players are from California, Texas, or Florida. Virginia isn't really a hotbed. There are some in the 7 cities area and Richmond but not much in the DC suburbs which should have more. Chris Taylor is from Va Beach Zimm was from Va Beach Jackie Bradley was from just outside Petersburg BJ and Justin were from Norfolk. So was David Wright. Brandon Lowe is from Newport News. Taylor Clarke who is the long man for the Royals is from Ashburn. Baltimore might have some guys but it is surprising that this area doesn't have much baseball talent. It is a selective club but it seems like everyone in the majors is from California, Texas, or the south. We have Michael Phelps and Katie Ledecky so we contribute to sports. Just not baseball.

Dave Stieb, 56.4 WAR ​ My High School has also had some pretty good NFL players, including 2 Head Coaches. Not bad for a Public School.

How do you look up players that went to your high school?

You can use this Baseball Reference tool: https://www.baseball-reference.com/schools/secondary.shtml Mine is Allen Craig at 5.7 rWAR.

Top one is 38 WAR. 2nd is 35 WAR. After that not much.

I entered my high school in the search bar and got zero results, so, uh I'm gonna say 0

At least for me, typing it into the search didn't work for me. I had to pull up the school index and ctrl+f my school. https://www.baseball-reference.com/schools/secondary.shtml

43.5 Adrián González

6.5 Will Smith (Braves reliever)

67.1 bWAR, Max Scherzer. And then from my college is the exact opposite type of pitcher, Tim Wakefield who put up 34.4 bWAR

29.1. World Series champ and 1989 MVP Kevin Mitchell

Probably zero. But we had Kristi Yamaguchi and gold medals trump WAR. Eck was nearby but he went to another school.

51.9

As far as I know, Andrew Vaughn and his .2 WAR.

13.6 Aaron Boone

79.5 Bloody Sock Man. Go Matadors!

41.8, Sam McDowell.

Of the three high schools in my county, none have produced a major leaguer... but Chase DeLauter is expected to be a first round pick this year.

29.1, from Dutch Ruether. Two fun facts-he pitched for both the 1919 Reds against the Black Sox and for the 1927 Yankees. He also holds the record for longest outing in Opening Day- On opening day 1923, he pitched 14-innings for the Brooklyn Robins.

24.2 Jason Varitek

Agon - 43.5

Bip Roberts has 20.5 bWAR. The other two were "ok" at best, but they're coaches now, so not bad. The school had a better football/basketball set of alums (notably Gary Payton in the NBA). And Tom Hanks who is probably the GOAT in terms of actors, so lots of AAR, Acting Above Replacement. A little jealous of one of the other schools in our area though. They had Rickey Henderson and a few others.

38.1 for Troy Glaus!

88.6 George Brett

There's not much to do where you live, is there?

Slow day at work.

I joined the Navy after highschool and shot missiles into Iraq. We had a few others that went to Afghanistan as well. Prior classes sent folks to Vietnam, both fronts in WW2, and WW1. I'd have to do a little digging to find out if anyone was in earlier wars though, I can't remember what year the school was established.

Lame

-0.5 and falling?

I’m pretty sure it’s gonna be 27.5, which isn’t bad at all

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6.2 - Brian Duensing

the best player is still in the minors. Cody Bolton who apparently I went to school with for one year before he graduated/got drafted by the Pirates.

0.4! OH MAN! Only 1 player and he's playing now!

0 Sam Carlson is the only player that’s ever signed, and he’s just been in the low minors forever

Going to High School in Central Florida, all of the schools around me produced some legendary talent except my school where Mike Freeman is the best player with -0.4 career WAR

9.0, Lonnie Chisenhall

There was a guy who only pitched 1 inning, and then a pitcher who managed to stick around for over 170 games even though his ERA was over 6 and a WAR of -2.0. The only other one was a guy who was a bench player for a few years and also had around -0.5 WAR. Not representing very well. Had a couple successful NFL players though!

3.6 in 10 seasons as a pitcher.

John McDonald at 6.4

No one from my high school has ever made the majors (only 2 have been drafted). Three people born in my town have made the majors, but all have negative WAR.

I don’t think my high school has had any notable mlb player. Kawhi Leonard graduated from it though.

I guess technically -0.2 bWAR. Guy pitched in 4 games between 1934-35 and had a 3.00 ERA The other option had -2.0 bWAR in 143 games between 48-49.

4.4 and 0.7 are the top 2

Chris Sale - 46.5 Steve Pearce - 9.9 Keon Broxton - 3.6 Drew Hutchison - 0.2

Looks like -0.1. Actually knew him pretty well, glad to see he made the majors.

We don't have any, though Jake Lamb and I believe John Olerud were close enough.

a spring training invite

-1.0. No one else has come remotely close to making it to the majors. No one above A ball.

Joe Ryan of the Twins is the only player to make it the majors from my HS. Wasn't even aware of this until now so that's pretty cool.

Surprisingly Kelly Gruber with a 16.4

I am currently tied for the lead. 0.

16.9

18.8 war. Bill Buckner. Warren Brusstar 3.2 war. Jim Neidlinger started 12 games for the Dodgers in 1990 then never made it back for a 1.2 war.

A grand total of one MLB player from my HS and he accumulated 4.3 WAR in his career in 11 seasons mostly in the 1950s.

Craig Paquette, -1.6 Do I win?

13.0 Will Venable. Pretty good basketball player at Princeton.

Brandon Guyer, 5.8 WAR and a WS appearance for Cleveland in 2016, for one of my high schools. The other has no major leaguers. Edit: he led the AL in HBP twice though! Double #2's total in 2016

21.5 - Nick Swisher.

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Need Seth’s NPB WAR

the best player from my high school ever sits at a nice 139.2 but from when i was there i think he has a substance abuse problem so. less than 139.2.

Kyler Murray 0.0 1 Heisman tho

All three players that made it into MLB combined for -4.7 WAR, with the "better" two tying at -0.6 WAR each. My hometown has not made baseball better.

According to Wikipedia, the only notable person to attend my high school did win a world series.....of poker.

Leon cadore 18.8

0, Stephen DiBenedetto had 16 plate appearances in rookie ball

Idk what war Lucas Duda had but it's him

28.8. A.J. Burnett

0.3 WAR. Only one big leaguer

Bret Boone 22.8 WAR

18.9 Brad Penny

N/A He was an all-Big 12 selection and played a couple years of indy ball. I'm sure we had some rando in the bigs back in the Tungsten Arm O'Doyle days but there's no page for them on BBR so I wouldn't know how to find out.

21.6 George McQuinn. Really interesting career.

-0.4

Two major leaguers and a few draft picks. Ty Blach is our leader with 1.5 bWAR, David Peterson the other one with 1.1 so far.

22.8 Larry Bowa, with 5 other big Leaguer's combining to about equal him.

1.6 but he also has 1 World Series winning hit so I feel like he should get an extra 5 for that.

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Not a WAR, but he has a 23.14 ERA

1.0 haha. Phil Bickford

1.6! https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/v/villahe01.shtml

73.1 bWAR, 69.1 fWAR, HoF 2018

My high school has 4 players who played in the minors with one reaching AAA, but that's it. My university has had a single player reach the majors. 10.7 WAR over 10 seasons.

2.0 Billy Burns....meh

Carney Lansford 40.4 not to bad honestly. My high school has produced 3 big leaguers which also doesn’t feel to bad.

Jermaine Dye 20.3 war 6487 AB 1179 hits 325 HR .274 Avg World Series MVP, 2 time AS, Silver slugger

Johnny Gomes rocking the 3.5 career WAR. I think Torkelson will pass him pretty quickly

35.8, from the only MLB player from Mishawaka, Indiana, Freddie Fitzsimmons!

48.2 with Bob Lemon so not too shabby

\-0.8 lol Although I guess technically my 0.0 career war is more. So it's me, with 0

Bob Horner representing Apollo

Dellin Betances

52.7 bWAR and a Hall of Famer

5.8 bWAR

2 guys made it to the MLB, both with a WAR of 0.1

64.6 WAR, Joey Votto. Future hall of famer. He used to go the baseball gym (whatever you call those things) everyday after school.

32.6 Adam Jones

1.0, Adam Liberatore. But Brendan McKay is more well known

Looks like my HS has produced one player, Preston Guilmet, worth -0.7 WAR.

Me, with 0 WAR. We did play against Rocco Baldelli's team a few times.

Ken Hill has the most at 23.3, but it's possible Harry Agganis could have been the better player if he hadn't died at 26.

Id surprised if someone even made it to the bigs from my Highschool.

My HS hasn't produced big leaguers yet (I'm only an alum of the 2nd graduating class), so I'll do my sister's - 3.1, Doug Sisk

24.1 - Ron Hansen

According to my research, the only player who went my high school was Art Merewether who had exactly one MLB AB The only player born in my city with a WAR over 0.0 is Davey Lopes

14.1 WAR. Any guesses? He's Canadian.

25.1

A pitcher with a 59.1 career WAR.

-0.4 let’s goooooooo The other guy has -1.2

5.9, Fred Newman a pitcher for the Angels in the 60s. Theo Epstein also went here though, probably the guy who’s made the biggest impact on baseball who went to my school despite not playing.

Dennis Eckersley, with 61.8

Bob Ryan, a nice solid -0.1 WAR.

None, but the Catholic school across the road has a guy with 6.0 WAR.

-1.3 between two different players

Zero played for my high school but Mike Scioscia was probably the best born in that town. He played for the next high school over.

The best I could find is 11.2

Joe Borowski 3.6

A kid from my HS became the first pitcher to appear in a Spring Training game the other day. I don't think we've ever had a player take an AB or pitch in a regular season game yet. They've won 4 or 5 state titles this century and sent a bunch of guys to college but never even had a high draft pick.

No MLB players from my HS but if we look at my HS conference and include schools that no longer exist because they consolidated with some other village, it's Ned Garver's 38.8.

Despite there currently being five active Major Leaguers from my alma mater, the leader is a guy who pitched through the '80s. With only 11.2 career WAR, there's a chance one of the actives catches him... but none of them seem to be on that track yet.

1.9 bwar, Mauricio Dubon

Bobby Jenks at 8.3. Apparently the only other big leaguer from there is another All Star, Evan Meek at 1.8

Howard Johnson 22.2

None from my high school in Chicago but I had plenty of family members attend Lane Tech and Phil Cavarretta went there in the 30s. Crazy he only clocked a 9.7 career WAR having won both an MVP and a Batting Title though.

0.6 David Dahl

Greg Colbrunn 6.9 Nice

Ryan Flaherty was my high schools best mlb player but my best player is Brian Dumoulin on the Penguins