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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
Lance Berkman	1995–1997	1999–2013	52.0
Anthony Rendon	2009–2011	2013–2022	34.0
Jose Cruz	1993–1995	1997–2008	19.6
Brock Holt	2009	2012–2021	8.2
Norm Charlton	1982–1984	1988–2001	8.1
Jeff Niemann	2002–2004	2008–2012	4.2
J. T. Chargois	drafted 2012	2016–2022	3.9
Mark Quinn	1994–1995	1999–2002	3.2
Tony Cingrani	2010–2011	2012–2018	2.3
Lucas Luetge	2008	2012–2022	2.1
David Aardsma	2002–2003	2004–2015	2.0
Tyler Duffey	drafted 2012	2015–2022	1.8
Dave Pavlas	1982–1984	1990–1996	1.4
Allan Ramirez	1976–1979	1983	1.1
Philip Humber	2002–2004	2006–2013	1.0
Tim Byrdak	1994	1998–2013	0.6
Joe Wood	1939	1943	0.5
Matt Williams	1978–1981	1983–1985	0.4
Craig Stansberry	2003	2007–2009	0.0
Frank Carswell	1939–1941	1953	0.0
Mario Ramos	1997–1999	2003	0.0
Matt Langwell	2007–2008	2013	0.0
Paul Janish	2002–2004	2008–2017	0.0
Philip Barzilla	2000–2001	2006	0.0
Josh Rodriguez	2004–2006	2011	-0.1
Kevin Joseph	1995–1997	2002	-0.1
Lance Pendleton	2003–2005	2011	-0.1
Bryan Price	drafted 2008	2014	-0.2
Ford Proctor	drafted 2018	2022	-0.2
Joe Savery	2005–2007	2011–2014	-0.2
Marcus Gwyn	1997–2000	2007	-0.2
Eddie Dyer	1920–1922	1922–1927	-0.3
Mike Macha	1974–1975	1979–1980	-0.4
Jon Duplantier	drafted 2016	2019–2021	-0.5
Matt Anderson	1995–1997	1998–2005	-0.5
Glenn Otto	drafted 2017	2021–2022	-0.7
Josh Geer	2005	2008–2009	-0.7
Bubba Crosby	1996–1998	2003–2006	-1.5
Dave Hilton	1969–1970	1972–1975	-2.0
Dane Myers	drafted 2017	2023	—
Evan Kravetz	drafted 2019	2024	—
Hayden Durke	drafted 2023		—
Trei Cruz	drafted 2019–2020		—
Tristan Gray	drafted 2017	2023	—

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