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Brad Meador

Reds

2019–2021 · 3 drafts · 68 picks

Early-Round Selection
+9.9
#41 of 172
rds 1–10, cost-ctrl
Late-Round Value
-6.1
#88 of 172
rds 11+, total career
Total DVOS
-31.9
#121 of 172
-10.63/draft
Hitter DVOS
-5.3
#141 of 172
reliable skill (+0.54)
Career fWAR drafted
25
#131 of 172

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

PosPicksfWARDVOS
P720 +4.5
OF20 -2.2
IF34 -3.2

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
202153Andrew AbbottP 7.61.8 +5.8
20197Nick LodoloP 6.59.1 -2.7
2019174Graham AshcraftP 5.20.8 +4.4
202117Matt McLain2B 4.95.9 -1.0
2020143Joe BoyleP 1.70.8 +0.8
2021450Blake DunnOF 0.50.2 +0.3
2019144Evan KravetzP 0.00.8 -0.8

By draft class

YearPicksfWARExpectedDVOS
20194010.8 21.1-10.3
202061.5 14.8-13.3
20212212.7 21.1-8.4
Total68 25 -31.9

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.