Duane Shaffer — Scouting Director

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

Pos	Picks	fWAR	DVOS
P	58	164	+98.5
OF	11	20	+5.3
IF	19	22	+0.5
C	7	1	-7.2

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.

Top picks — who drove the value

Yr	Ovr	Player	Pos	fWAR	Exp	DVOS
1998	1139	Mark Buehrle	P	51.5	0.1	+51.4
2004	38	Gio Gonzalez	P	30.7	2.8	+27.8
1998	35	Aaron Rowand	OF	23.5	2.8	+20.6
1994	845	Eric Gagne	P	13.9	0.1	+13.9
1996	137	Joe Crede	3B	13.0	0.8	+12.2
1998	16	Kip Wells	P	11.5	5.8	+5.7
1993	425	Mike Sirotka	P	11.4	0.2	+11.2
2005	245	Clayton Richard	P	7.5	0.5	+7.0
1996	377	Chad Bradford	P	7.3	0.3	+7.0
1999	99	Jon Rauch	P	5.9	1.0	+4.8
1993	1261	Frank Menechino	2B	5.6	0.1	+5.6
1992	764	Brendan Donnelly	P	5.5	0.1	+5.5
1998	89	Josh Fogg	P	5.1	1.0	+4.1
2000	82	Michael Morse	1B	4.7	1.0	+3.6
2005	455	Chris Carter	1B	4.6	0.2	+4.4

By draft class

Year	Picks	fWAR	Expected	DVOS
1992	50	4.9	17.2	-12.3
1993	49	14.0	18.2	-4.1
1994	55	13.6	19.9	-6.3
1995	54	-2.5	17.5	-20.0
1996	53	22.4	21.5	+0.9
1997	57	2.9	29.8	-26.8
1998	52	91.9	21.7	+70.2
1999	54	7.6	29.5	-21.9
2000	50	2.0	19.9	-18.0
2004	54	34.3	27.4	+6.9
2005	49	14.0	15.6	-1.6
2006	50	3.3	13.4	-10.1
Total	627	208	–	-43.2

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.