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Dick Balderson

Cubs

1989–1990 · 2 drafts · 100 picks

Early-Round Selection
-14.2
#138 of 172
rds 1–10, cost-ctrl
Late-Round Value
-12.8
#130 of 172
rds 11+, total career
Total DVOS
-48.0
#141 of 172
-23.98/draft
Hitter DVOS
-5.0
#137 of 172
reliable skill (+0.54)
Career fWAR drafted
-4
#172 of 172

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

PosPicksfWARDVOS
OF1-0 -0.6
IF3-2 -4.4
P4-3 -10.1

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

YrOvrPlayerPosfWARExpDVOS

By draft class

YearPicksfWARExpectedDVOS
198954-4.0 24.6-28.7
199046-0.4 18.9-19.3
Total100 -4 -48.0

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.