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New Haven, CT · 27 major leaguers played here

Sorted by career bWAR. Colleges are from the Lahman database through 2014; for later players, the school they were drafted from, per the MLB draft.

Player	At college	Major-league career	Career bWAR
Bill Hutchison	1878–1881	1884–1897	39.0
Ron Darling	1979–1981	1983–1995	19.5
Craig Breslow	1999–2002	2005–2017	6.2
Johnny Broaca	1932	1934–1939	1.8
Jack Jones	1882–1883	1883	1.3
Sam Mele	1943	1947–1956	1.1
Frank Quinn	1945–1948	1949–1950	0.4
Barney Reilly	1905	1909	0.1
Al Hubbard	1882–1883	1883	0.0
Edgar Smith	1882	1883	0.0
George Knight	1875	1875	0.0
Pete Falsey	1913–1914	1914	0.0
Spencer Pumpelly	1915	1925	0.0
Dick Tettelbach	1948–1950	1955–1957	-0.1
Sam Childs	1883	1883	-0.1
Al Nevin	1871–1874	1873	-0.2
Dick Manville	1945	1950–1952	-0.2
Jimmy O'Rourke	1901–1903	1908	-0.2
Yale Murphy	1890–1893	1894–1897	-0.2
Joe Wood	1939–1941	1944	-0.3
Bob Davis	1953–1955	1958–1960	-0.4
Bruce Caldwell	1927–1928	1928–1932	-0.4
Eddie Collins	1937–1939	1939–1942	-0.7
Ken MacKenzie	1955–1956	1960–1965	-0.7
Ryan Lavarnway	2006–2008	2011–2021	-1.0
Bill Vinton	1886	1884–1885	-1.7
Michael Walsh	drafted 2022		—

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