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Dick Foster

Brewers

1988–1991 · 4 drafts · 183 picks

Early-Round Selection
-11.0
#130 of 172
rds 1–10, cost-ctrl
Late-Round Value
+14.1
#27 of 172
rds 11+, total career
Total DVOS
-31.3
#119 of 172
-7.83/draft
Hitter DVOS
+30.9
#73 of 172
reliable skill (+0.54)
Career fWAR drafted
50
#102 of 172

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

PosPicksfWARDVOS
IF434 +32.1
C33 +1.6
P814 +0.1
OF2-1 -2.8

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
1991286Jeff Cirillo3B 33.00.5 +32.5
198917Cal EldredP 12.35.9 +6.4
1991208Mike MathenyC 3.40.8 +2.6
1988133Pat ListachSS 1.50.8 +0.6
19911139Bobby JonesP 1.40.1 +1.4
1988211Mike IgnasiakP 0.40.8 -0.4
1988185Chris GeorgeP 0.20.8 -0.6

By draft class

YearPicksfWARExpectedDVOS
1988421.8 17.4-15.6
19894912.3 24.4-12.1
199043-1.7 12.6-14.3
19914937.8 27.0+10.8
Total183 50 -31.3

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.