Chuck McMichael

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

Pos	Picks	fWAR	DVOS
IF	7	64	+53.7
P	14	43	+32.3
OF	8	9	+0.1

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
2000	274	Edwin Encarnación	1B	33.5	0.5	+33.0
1999	195	Aaron Harang	P	28.3	0.8	+27.5
1998	10	Carlos Pena	1B	18.8	7.8	+11.0
1999	38	Colby Lewis	P	13.9	2.8	+11.1
1999	105	Hank Blalock	3B	9.2	1.0	+8.2
1999	118	Kevin Mench	OF	8.7	1.0	+7.7
2000	124	Laynce Nix	OF	3.1	1.0	+2.1
2000	244	Nick Masset	P	2.4	0.5	+1.9
1997	227	Mike Lamb	1B	2.3	0.5	+1.9
1999	1375	Jason Botts	DH	0.5	0.1	+0.4
2000	56	Jason Bourgeois	OF	0.3	1.8	-1.5
1997	137	Dave Elder	P	0.1	0.8	-0.8
2000	574	A.J. Murray	P	0.0	0.2	-0.2

Year	Picks	fWAR	Expected	DVOS
1997	42	-1.4	15.3	-16.7
1998	50	18.5	19.7	-1.2
1999	53	59.6	18.1	+41.5
2000	53	39.3	23.9	+15.4
Total	198	116	–	+39.1

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