BUILDING THE WALES

Every year I like to look at how I got my keepers.  No surprise here that most of Outlaw's 2016 keepers came from the draft.  Of the 18 keepers (including 1 IR player), nine are former first round Outlaw draft picks, three are former Outlaw 2nd round draft picks and one is a former Outlaw third round draft pick.  Only five came in trades.  Here are the keepers ordered by years of Outlaw service:

Tim Hudson, 16, 2000 1st round
Jake Peavy, 12, 2004 2nd round
Adrian Gonzalez, 9, 2007 1st round
Dustin Pedroia, 8, 2008 1st round
Elvis Andrus, 6, 2010 1st round
Nelson Cruz, 6, 2010 1st round
Matt Kemp, 5, 2010 postseason trade for 2011 1st round
Yan Gomes, 2, 2014 1st round
Zack Wheeler (IR), 2, 2014 2nd round
Jake McGee, 2, 2014 minor trade
Lonnie Chisenhall, 2, 2014 trade for Christian Yelich
Albert Pujols, 2, 2014 trade for Mike Napoli
Carlos Carrasco, 1, 2015 1st round
Billy Hamilton, 1, 2015 1st round
J.D. Martinez, 1, 2015 1st round
Javier Baez, 1, 2015 2nd round
Nick Castellanos, 1, 2015 3rd round
Julio Teheran, 0, 2015 postseason trade for Craig Kimbrel