Damon Oppenheimer — Scouting Director

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

Pos	Picks	fWAR	DVOS
OF	20	124	+105.4
P	84	134	+80.6
C	4	8	+4.5
IF	20	-1	-12.1

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
2013	32	Aaron Judge	OF	63.7	2.8	+60.9
2005	109	Brett Gardner	OF	37.3	1.0	+36.3
2005	259	Austin Jackson	OF	19.4	0.5	+18.9
2006	524	David Robertson	P	18.0	0.2	+17.8
2006	21	Ian Kennedy	P	16.0	4.9	+11.0
2014	122	Jordan Montgomery	P	14.8	1.0	+13.8
2006	284	Mark Melancon	P	12.0	0.5	+11.5
2006	254	Dellin Betances	P	11.2	0.5	+10.7
2013	1094	Nestor Cortes	P	7.2	0.1	+7.2
2017	542	Garrett Whitlock	P	7.1	0.2	+6.9
2008	230	Kyle Higashioka	C	7.0	0.5	+6.5
2006	41	Joba Chamberlain	P	6.8	2.3	+4.4
2006	104	Zach McAllister	P	6.6	1.0	+5.6
2008	440	David Phelps	P	6.5	0.2	+6.2
2017	16	Clarke Schmidt	P	5.4	5.7	-0.3

By draft class

Year	Picks	fWAR	Expected	DVOS
2005	50	56.0	16.9	+39.1
2006	50	69.3	16.5	+52.8
2007	50	-0.6	12.1	-12.7
2008	51	11.9	15.6	-3.7
2009	49	9.3	12.3	-3.0
2010	50	6.9	13.1	-6.2
2011	50	5.4	12.0	-6.7
2012	41	3.2	12.5	-9.3
2013	42	70.6	18.4	+52.2
2014	39	15.4	11.0	+4.4
2015	41	-0.4	18.9	-19.3
2016	40	0.6	16.9	-16.3
2017	40	17.5	16.7	+0.8
2024	20	0.0	12.1	-12.1
Total	613	265	–	+60.2

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.