Brad Grant — Scouting Director

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

Pos	Picks	fWAR	DVOS
IF	20	102	+83.2
P	64	76	+39.6
C	4	14	+11.7
OF	16	12	-22.4

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
2011	8	Francisco Lindor	SS	61.0	9.1	+51.8
2016	122	Shane Bieber	P	21.8	1.0	+20.8
2009	63	Jason Kipnis	2B	21.0	1.8	+19.2
2010	5	Drew Pomeranz	P	11.2	8.9	+2.3
2008	1011	Roberto Pérez	C	10.7	0.1	+10.6
2016	92	Aaron Civale	P	9.3	1.0	+8.3
2012	203	Joey Wendle	2B	9.1	0.8	+8.3
2008	29	Lonnie Chisenhall	3B	8.0	2.2	+5.8
2011	698	Cody Allen	P	6.8	0.1	+6.8
2017	132	Ernie Clement	2B	5.6	0.8	+4.7
2011	548	Shawn Armstrong	P	4.4	0.2	+4.2
2015	42	Triston McKenzie	P	4.3	2.3	+1.9
2016	362	Zach Plesac	P	4.1	0.3	+3.8
2012	15	Tyler Naquin	OF	3.6	5.7	-2.1
2014	128	Sam Hentges	P	2.8	1.0	+1.8

By draft class

Year	Picks	fWAR	Expected	DVOS
2008	50	19.6	13.2	+6.4
2009	50	19.8	17.3	+2.6
2010	50	12.4	20.9	-8.5
2011	50	75.4	20.8	+54.6
2012	40	12.9	16.2	-3.3
2013	39	2.3	19.3	-17.1
2014	42	9.1	21.5	-12.4
2015	41	6.6	19.2	-12.6
2016	41	38.1	18.6	+19.6
2017	40	7.2	12.3	-5.1
Total	443	203	–	+24.1

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.