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Ben Wade

Dodgers

1973–1990 · 6 drafts · 306 picks

Early-Round Selection
-33.5
#170 of 172
rds 1–10, cost-ctrl
Late-Round Value
+53.4
#6 of 172
rds 11+, total career
Total DVOS
-4.1
#72 of 172
-0.68/draft
Hitter DVOS
+109.5
#19 of 172
reliable skill (+0.54)
Career fWAR drafted
139
#52 of 172

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

PosPicksfWARDVOS
C376 +74.6
IF1540 +33.0
OF719 +1.9
P184 -6.1

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

YrOvrPlayerPosfWARExpDVOS
19881390Mike PiazzaC 62.50.1 +62.4
19891120Eric Young Sr.2B 19.80.1 +19.8
1988140Eric Karros1B 17.80.8 +17.0
1985116Mike DevereauxOF 13.01.0 +12.0
1987144Darrin FletcherC 12.40.8 +11.5
198647Dave Hansen1B 4.92.3 +2.6
198922Tom GoodwinOF 3.94.9 -1.1
1985402Mike HuffOF 2.80.2 +2.5
19871063Mike JamesP 2.10.1 +2.1
198674Mike MunozP 1.61.9 -0.2
1987170Tony BarronOF 1.40.8 +0.6
1988218Jim PooleP 0.80.8 +0.0
1988894Héctor OrtizC 0.70.1 +0.6
198766Chris NichtingP 0.51.9 -1.4
1990628Mike MimbsP 0.50.1 +0.5

By draft class

YearPicksfWARExpectedDVOS
19853415.0 25.3-10.4
1986326.3 19.6-13.3
19875114.7 24.7-10.0
19886179.9 22.5+57.4
19896523.7 28.8-5.1
199063-0.3 22.5-22.8
Total306 139 -4.1

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.