Rosternomics

โ† all scouting directors

Chris Buckley

Reds, Blue Jays

2001โ€“2002, 2007โ€“2018 ยท 14 drafts ยท 641 picks

Early-Round Selection
-8.9
#118 of 172
rds 1โ€“10, cost-ctrl
Late-Round Value
-49.7
#171 of 172
rds 11+, total career
Total DVOS
-83.2
#168 of 172
-5.95/draft
Hitter DVOS
+28.7
#76 of 172
reliable skill (+0.54)
Career fWAR drafted
214
#31 of 172

Value by position โ€” where the value came from (descriptive)

PosPicksfWARDVOS
C1159 +32.4
P5783 +21.6
IF1644 +5.6
OF2128 -9.3

Position from each player's primary MLB fielding spot; never-MLB picks excluded. This table is descriptive, not a skill ranking โ€” per-position DVOS isn't reliable at this granularity (split-half โ‰ˆ 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 (โ‰ˆ 0) โ€” so we rank Hitter DVOS and leave pitcher out.

Top picks โ€” who drove the value

YrOvrPlayerPosfWARExpDVOS
201012Yasmani GrandalC 40.08.0 +32.0
200734Todd Frazier3B 24.12.9 +21.2
20098Mike LeakeP 21.29.3 +11.9
2013225Tyler MahleP 13.50.5 +13.0
200957Billy HamiltonOF 11.71.8 +9.9
20172Hunter GreeneP 10.814.4 -3.6
200779Zack CozartSS 10.31.9 +8.3
200255Dave BushP 9.81.8 +8.0
201338Michael LorenzenP 9.32.9 +6.4
201249Jesse WinkerOF 8.72.4 +6.3
201511Tyler StephensonC 8.68.0 +0.6
20185Jonathan India2B 7.99.0 -1.2
2009299Tucker BarnhartC 5.80.5 +5.3
200115Gabe GrossOF 5.55.8 -0.4
20087Yonder Alonso1B 4.79.3 -4.7

By draft class

YearPicksfWARExpectedDVOS
2001507.7 17.7-10.0
20025012.1 18.0-5.9
20075334.9 22.9+12.0
2008494.3 19.7-15.4
20095139.8 23.9+15.9
20105039.0 19.8+19.1
2011505.8 12.7-6.9
2012427.9 20.8-12.9
20134126.1 15.9+10.2
2014415.1 19.5-14.5
20154113.6 22.1-8.6
201641-1.8 30.3-32.1
20174112.0 30.8-18.8
2018417.6 23.2-15.6
Total641 214โ€“ -83.2

DVOS = ฮฃ (a pick's career fWAR โˆ’ 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 โ€” see the coverage note on the leaderboard. Single drafts are noise-dominated โ€” one star swamps a class โ€” so read the multi-year totals, not any one year. Full method on the DVOS page.