The last pitch of Kyle Hendricks’ nine-strikeout appearance on Monday.

This past spring, the author published a three–part series in these electronic pages with a view towards examining the amateur origins of baseball’s good players — where “good” was defined by the half-arbitrary threshold of three wins in a given season. The results of the study suggest that — over the five years in question, at least — that a number of junior-college players outperform the win totals expected from their draft slots; that second basemen go to college, but shortstops not so much; and that three-dimensional pie charts are unambiguously cherished by all readers of this site.

Another revelation facilitated by the research: zero players drafted from an Ivy League school produced a 3.0 WAR or higher between the years 2010 and -14.

The point is noteworthy today because, if extended through the year 2015, the study would now include an Ivy Leaguer. On the strength of a nine-strikeout performance against Kansas City last night, Cubs right-hander and Dartmouth College product Kyle Hendricks has now recorded 3.1 WAR over 31 starts and 174.0 innings this year.

There are multiple caveats which accompany this observation, of course. For one, the three-win threshold is necessarily arbitrary. And two, the WAR being considered here is the sort based only on fielding-independent pitching and not on runs allowed. Using the latter input instead, Hendricks has produced only about two wins of value this year. Still, the point remains that one of the schools responsible for providing a lot of the front-office talent in the game is responsible, in the case of Hendricks, for providing on-field talent, as well.