Bill Gayton — Scouting Director

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

Pos	Picks	fWAR	DVOS
IF	26	85	+52.4
P	37	101	+44.6
OF	10	11	+2.4
C	4	2	-1.9

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
2007	134	Corey Kluber	P	38.3	0.8	+37.5
2005	66	Chase Headley	3B	26.8	1.9	+24.9
2006	333	Mat Latos	P	19.7	0.3	+19.4
2006	273	David Freese	3B	19.2	0.5	+18.7
2001	390	Jason Bartlett	SS	17.0	0.3	+16.7
2009	204	Miles Mikolas	P	14.6	0.8	+13.8
2005	218	Will Venable	OF	13.1	0.8	+12.3
2002	13	Khalil Greene	SS	8.0	7.9	+0.2
2008	46	Logan Forsythe	2B	7.6	2.4	+5.2
2008	555	Nick Vincent	P	5.2	0.2	+5.0
2007	81	Eric Sogard	2B	4.8	1.0	+3.7
2008	1275	Brad Brach	P	4.6	0.1	+4.5
2006	61	Wade LeBlanc	P	4.2	1.8	+2.4
2003	4	Tim Stauffer	P	3.8	10.4	-6.7
2004	1241	Kyle Blanks	1B	3.6	0.1	+3.6

By draft class

Year	Picks	fWAR	Expected	DVOS
2001	41	18.6	17.3	+1.3
2002	50	9.0	19.9	-10.9
2003	50	4.6	23.9	-19.3
2004	49	7.2	34.6	-27.4
2005	52	41.2	22.5	+18.7
2006	47	41.7	22.0	+19.7
2007	42	45.9	26.9	+19.0
2008	46	17.8	21.5	-3.7
2009	50	13.6	23.1	-9.5
Total	427	200	–	-12.1

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.