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1985โ1994 ยท 10 drafts ยท 448 picks
| Pos | Picks | fWAR | DVOS |
|---|---|---|---|
| IF | 20 | 98 | +69.8 |
| P | 43 | 64 | +18.0 |
| OF | 13 | 20 | -9.6 |
| C | 6 | 1 | -9.8 |
Position from each player's primary MLB fielding spot; never-MLB picks excluded. This table is descriptive, not a skill ranking โ per-position DVOS isn't reliable at this granularity (split-half โ 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 (โ 0) โ so we rank Hitter DVOS and leave pitcher out.
| Yr | Ovr | Player | Pos | fWAR | Exp | DVOS |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1992 | 58 | Jason Giambi | 1B | 49.8 | 1.8 | +48.0 |
| 1986 | 40 | Kevin Tapani | P | 37.7 | 2.9 | +34.9 |
| 1987 | 510 | Scott Brosius | 3B | 15.7 | 0.2 | +15.4 |
| 1985 | 11 | Walt Weiss | SS | 14.8 | 8.0 | +6.8 |
| 1993 | 181 | Scott Spiezio | 1B | 8.8 | 0.8 | +8.0 |
| 1988 | 463 | Darren Lewis | OF | 8.1 | 0.2 | +7.9 |
| 1986 | 327 | Rod Beck | P | 6.9 | 0.3 | +6.6 |
| 1994 | 2 | Ben Grieve | OF | 6.7 | 14.3 | -7.6 |
| 1985 | 65 | Wally Whitehurst | P | 6.0 | 1.8 | +4.1 |
| 1986 | 249 | Lance Blankenship | 2B | 5.9 | 0.5 | +5.4 |
| 1994 | 149 | Emil Brown | OF | 3.6 | 0.8 | +2.7 |
| 1991 | 26 | Brent Gates | 2B | 3.4 | 2.2 | +1.2 |
| 1990 | 619 | Tanyon Sturtze | P | 2.6 | 0.1 | +2.5 |
| 1990 | 437 | Doug Johns | P | 2.6 | 0.2 | +2.3 |
| 1993 | 25 | John Wasdin | P | 2.5 | 5.0 | -2.4 |
| Year | Picks | fWAR | Expected | DVOS |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1985 | 30 | 21.5 | 22.4 | -1.0 |
| 1986 | 25 | 51.6 | 22.0 | +29.6 |
| 1987 | 34 | 22.6 | 19.7 | +2.9 |
| 1988 | 49 | 5.3 | 23.5 | -18.2 |
| 1989 | 58 | -1.5 | 13.7 | -15.2 |
| 1990 | 54 | 6.3 | 30.6 | -24.3 |
| 1991 | 58 | 3.5 | 19.9 | -16.4 |
| 1992 | 51 | 49.8 | 20.3 | +29.5 |
| 1993 | 50 | 14.0 | 21.9 | -7.8 |
| 1994 | 39 | 9.7 | 28.8 | -19.0 |
| Total | 448 | 183 | โ | -39.9 |
DVOS = ฮฃ (a pick's career fWAR โ 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 โ see the coverage note on the leaderboard. Single drafts are noise-dominated โ one star swamps a class โ so read the multi-year totals, not any one year. Full method on the DVOS page.