Art Stewart — Scouting Director

Value by position — where the value came from (descriptive)

Pos	Picks	fWAR	DVOS
OF	18	130	+98.2
P	49	134	+78.2
IF	16	71	+48.5
C	9	23	+9.9

Position from each player's primary MLB fielding spot; never-MLB picks excluded. This table is descriptive, not a skill ranking — per-position DVOS isn't reliable at this granularity (split-half ≈ 0 for P/OF, a small-sample mirage for C). The one reliable position cut is Hitter vs Pitcher: drafting hitters (C/IF/OF) above slot repeats (split-half +0.54, the KPI above), but drafting pitchers above slot does not (≈ 0) — so we rank Hitter DVOS and leave pitcher out.

Top picks — who drove the value

Yr	Ovr	Player	Pos	fWAR	Exp	DVOS
1995	49	Carlos Beltrán	OF	67.4	2.3	+65.1
1987	9	Kevin Appier	P	50.4	7.8	+42.6
1992	35	Johnny Damon	OF	44.4	2.8	+41.6
1992	44	Jon Lieber	P	36.4	2.3	+34.0
1987	1225	Jeff Conine	1B	22.0	0.1	+22.0
1991	262	Mike Sweeney	1B	21.1	0.5	+20.7
1991	288	Joe Randa	3B	20.2	0.5	+19.7
1993	469	Glendon Rusch	P	19.8	0.2	+19.6
1985	97	Mike Macfarlane	C	15.7	1.0	+14.7
1985	17	Brian McRae	OF	13.4	5.9	+7.6
1994	331	José Rosado	P	11.6	0.3	+11.3
1992	10	Michael Tucker	OF	10.0	7.8	+2.2
1997	91	Jeremy Affeldt	P	5.6	1.0	+4.5
1989	13	Brent Mayne	C	5.1	7.8	-2.7
1996	799	Kiko Calero	P	5.1	0.1	+5.1

By draft class

Year	Picks	fWAR	Expected	DVOS
1985	30	29.0	19.5	+9.5
1987	74	71.8	24.1	+47.6
1988	49	8.6	20.5	-12.0
1989	61	5.3	24.9	-19.6
1990	55	-1.1	11.0	-12.1
1991	62	46.7	24.7	+22.0
1992	53	88.2	33.2	+55.0
1993	65	21.1	19.6	+1.5
1994	71	9.7	20.8	-11.1
1995	70	69.5	20.9	+48.6
1996	56	1.6	19.4	-17.8
1997	49	7.6	20.6	-13.1
Total	695	358	–	+98.6

DVOS = Σ (a pick's career fWAR − the expected fWAR for that overall slot), credited to the scouting director SABR lists for that draft. We only attribute years with one unambiguous director on record; years where SABR lists multiple names (handoffs/overlaps) or none are left out, so a director's record here may skip years he was involved in — see the coverage note on the leaderboard. Single drafts are noise-dominated — one star swamps a class — so read the multi-year totals, not any one year. Full method on the DVOS page.