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Brian Sabean

Yankees, Giants

1987–1990, 1993–1994 · 6 drafts · 378 picks

Early-Round Selection
-5.2
#87 of 172
rds 1–10, cost-ctrl
Late-Round Value
+134.2
#1 of 172
rds 11+, total career
Total DVOS
+134.5
#3 of 172
+22.42/draft
Hitter DVOS
+107.9
#21 of 172
reliable skill (+0.54)
Career fWAR drafted
247
#23 of 172

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

PosPicksfWARDVOS
P29110 +87.3
C659 +57.4
IF934 +26.6
OF1445 +24.0

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
1990577Andy PettitteP 67.90.2 +67.7
1990629Jorge PosadaC 40.90.1 +40.8
1993414Bill Mueller3B 23.70.2 +23.5
199010Carl EverettOF 17.57.8 +9.7
19871151Brad AusmusC 17.40.1 +17.3
1989127J.T. Snow1B 12.91.0 +11.9
1994256Keith FoulkeP 12.20.5 +11.7
1989231Sterling HitchcockP 12.10.5 +11.6
199348Chris SingletonOF 8.72.3 +6.4
1994144Bob HowryP 8.30.8 +7.4
1988781Deion SandersOF 6.20.1 +6.2
1990733Shane SpencerOF 5.70.1 +5.7
1987366Gerald WilliamsOF 5.60.3 +5.3
1989179Russ SpringerP 3.60.8 +2.8
1987185Dave EilandP 2.50.8 +1.8

By draft class

YearPicksfWARExpectedDVOS
19875425.6 11.7+13.9
1988728.7 11.7-3.0
19896128.0 15.4+12.6
199074131.2 22.7+108.6
19935731.9 30.6+1.3
19946021.6 20.4+1.2
Total378 247 +134.5

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.