Chad MacDonald — Scouting Director

Early-Round Selection

-6.0

#93 of 172

rds 1–10, cost-ctrl

Late-Round Value

+16.5

#23 of 172

rds 11+, total career

Total DVOS

+37.0

#37 of 172

+37.01/draft

Hitter DVOS

+19.5

#87 of 172

reliable skill (+0.54)

Career fWAR drafted

#97 of 172

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

Pos	Picks	fWAR	DVOS
P	10	30	+22.6
OF	2	29	+20.7
IF	3	-0	-1.2

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

Yr	Ovr	Player	Pos	fWAR	Exp	DVOS
2011	13	Brandon Nimmo	OF	29.0	7.8	+21.2
2011	1032	Seth Lugo	P	16.6	0.1	+16.5
2011	44	Michael Fulmer	P	10.3	2.3	+8.0
2011	642	John Gant	P	2.6	0.1	+2.5
2011	402	Robert Gsellman	P	2.4	0.2	+2.2
2011	162	Jack Leathersich	P	0.2	0.8	-0.6

By draft class

Year	Picks	fWAR	Expected	DVOS
2011	51	58.2	21.2	+37.0
Total	51	58	–	+37.0

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.