Brad Sloan

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

Pos	Picks	fWAR	DVOS
P	22	56	+46.4
OF	3	3	+0.9
IF	7	6	-5.6

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
1999	472	Jake Peavy	P	45.6	0.2	+45.3
1998	502	Brian Lawrence	P	11.5	0.2	+11.2
1998	9	Sean Burroughs	3B	5.1	7.8	-2.7
2000	49	Xavier Nady	OF	3.5	2.3	+1.2
1997	500	Shawn Camp	P	1.6	0.2	+1.3
2000	379	Justin Germano	P	1.4	0.3	+1.2
2000	139	Jon Huber	P	0.5	0.8	-0.3
1999	442	Bobby Scales	3B	0.4	0.2	+0.2
1996	260	Jason Middlebrook	P	0.4	0.5	-0.1
2000	739	Jack Cassel	P	0.3	0.1	+0.3
1997	27	Kevin Nicholson	SS	0.2	2.2	-2.0
2000	649	J.J. Furmaniak	2B	0.0	0.1	-0.0

Year	Picks	fWAR	Expected	DVOS
1996	40	0.4	18.5	-18.1
1997	42	-0.5	12.8	-13.4
1998	43	14.7	17.6	-2.9
1999	46	44.8	28.1	+16.7
2000	45	5.4	20.9	-15.5
Total	216	65	–	-33.2

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.

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

Top picks — who drove the value

By draft class