De Jon Watson — Scouting Director

Early-Round Selection

+8.4

#43 of 172

rds 1–10, cost-ctrl

Late-Round Value

+0.4

#48 of 172

rds 11+, total career

Total DVOS

-0.5

#67 of 172

-0.16/draft

Hitter DVOS

+28.1

#77 of 172

reliable skill (+0.54)

Career fWAR drafted

#94 of 172

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

Pos	Picks	fWAR	DVOS
IF	2	28	+24.0
P	15	17	+8.7
OF	3	16	+7.1
C	1	-1	-3.0

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
1998	50	Adam Dunn	1B	25.6	2.3	+23.2
1998	7	Austin Kearns	OF	16.7	9.1	+7.5
1998	500	B.J. Ryan	P	10.9	0.2	+10.7
1999	65	Ben Broussard	1B	2.5	1.8	+0.8
1998	170	Bobby Madritsch	P	2.2	0.8	+1.4
2000	34	Dustin Moseley	P	1.9	2.8	-0.9
1998	1220	Todd Coffey	P	1.7	0.1	+1.7
1998	350	John Koronka	P	0.4	0.3	+0.2
1999	638	Brad Salmon	P	0.1	0.1	+0.0
1998	200	Josh Hall	P	0.0	0.8	-0.8

By draft class

Year	Picks	fWAR	Expected	DVOS
1998	48	57.7	22.4	+35.2
1999	50	2.4	17.3	-14.8
2000	52	0.8	21.6	-20.9
Total	150	61	–	-0.5

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.