Red Sox, Tigers
2002–2010 · 9 drafts · 445 picks
| Pos | Picks | fWAR | DVOS |
|---|---|---|---|
| P | 38 | 124 | +73.7 |
| IF | 12 | 68 | +60.2 |
| OF | 11 | 51 | +30.9 |
| C | 5 | 12 | +8.2 |
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.
| Yr | Ovr | Player | Pos | fWAR | Exp | DVOS |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2002 | 57 | Jon Lester | P | 46.2 | 1.8 | +44.4 |
| 2004 | 65 | Dustin Pedroia | 2B | 44.8 | 1.8 | +43.0 |
| 2007 | 27 | Rick Porcello | P | 29.7 | 2.2 | +27.4 |
| 2003 | 114 | Jonathan Papelbon | P | 19.3 | 1.0 | +18.3 |
| 2008 | 163 | Alex Avila | C | 16.4 | 0.8 | +15.5 |
| 2005 | 360 | Matt Joyce | OF | 16.0 | 0.3 | +15.7 |
| 2005 | 10 | Cameron Maybin | OF | 14.6 | 7.8 | +6.8 |
| 2010 | 44 | Nick Castellanos | 3B | 13.3 | 2.4 | +10.9 |
| 2006 | 6 | Andrew Miller | P | 12.0 | 12.7 | -0.7 |
| 2010 | 68 | Drew Smyly | P | 11.0 | 1.9 | +9.1 |
| 2003 | 17 | David Murphy | OF | 9.3 | 6.0 | +3.3 |
| 2002 | 238 | Brandon Moss | 1B | 8.8 | 0.5 | +8.3 |
| 2003 | 32 | Matt Murton | OF | 5.1 | 2.8 | +2.2 |
| 2005 | 570 | Burke Badenhop | P | 3.3 | 0.2 | +3.0 |
| 2008 | 253 | Andy Dirks | OF | 3.1 | 0.5 | +2.6 |
| Year | Picks | fWAR | Expected | DVOS |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2002 | 49 | 53.5 | 12.0 | +41.4 |
| 2003 | 52 | 33.2 | 23.2 | +10.0 |
| 2004 | 49 | 46.1 | 11.7 | +34.4 |
| 2005 | 49 | 37.0 | 18.1 | +19.0 |
| 2006 | 50 | 15.5 | 25.3 | -9.8 |
| 2007 | 45 | 32.0 | 13.6 | +18.4 |
| 2008 | 50 | 20.0 | 16.1 | +3.9 |
| 2009 | 50 | -1.8 | 19.9 | -21.7 |
| 2010 | 51 | 19.6 | 15.9 | +3.7 |
| Total | 445 | 255 | – | +99.3 |
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.