Bill Schmidt — Scouting Director

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

Pos	Picks	fWAR	DVOS
IF	29	141	+97.1
OF	22	80	+55.5
C	7	12	+8.5
P	63	91	-1.6

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
2009	59	Nolan Arenado	3B	52.7	1.8	+51.0
2005	7	Troy Tulowitzki	SS	37.8	9.1	+28.7
2011	45	Trevor Story	SS	26.5	2.3	+24.1
2008	72	Charlie Blackmon	OF	20.8	1.9	+19.0
2013	3	Jon Gray	P	19.4	11.0	+8.4
2004	410	Dexter Fowler	OF	19.3	0.2	+19.0
2002	9	Jeff Francis	P	15.4	7.8	+7.6
2014	8	Kyle Freeland	P	15.0	9.1	+5.8
2011	20	Tyler Anderson	P	14.1	5.9	+8.2
2004	50	Seth Smith	OF	14.0	2.3	+11.6
2010	260	Corey Dickerson	OF	12.2	0.5	+11.7
2013	42	Ryan McMahon	3B	12.0	2.3	+9.6
2004	110	Chris Iannetta	C	8.9	1.0	+7.8
2000	287	Clint Barmes	2B	7.8	0.5	+7.3
2005	627	Chris Martin	P	7.4	0.1	+7.4

By draft class

Year	Picks	fWAR	Expected	DVOS
2000	50	17.7	22.5	-4.8
2001	50	0.9	14.0	-13.1
2002	51	19.4	21.1	-1.7
2003	50	4.9	21.2	-16.3
2004	50	39.9	21.2	+18.7
2005	52	47.3	25.7	+21.7
2006	50	4.8	27.4	-22.6
2007	50	-5.1	20.2	-25.3
2008	50	23.1	16.0	+7.1
2009	52	57.7	25.0	+32.7
2010	51	15.2	15.6	-0.4
2011	51	40.5	19.3	+21.2
2012	42	7.5	21.7	-14.2
2013	41	37.4	25.7	+11.7
2014	41	13.0	23.9	-10.9
Total	731	324	–	+3.8

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.