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1992โ2000, 2004โ2006 ยท 12 drafts ยท 627 picks
| Pos | Picks | fWAR | DVOS |
|---|---|---|---|
| P | 58 | 164 | +97.9 |
| OF | 11 | 20 | +5.1 |
| IF | 19 | 22 | +0.3 |
| C | 7 | 1 | -7.3 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1998 | 1139 | Mark Buehrle | P | 51.5 | 0.1 | +51.4 |
| 2004 | 38 | Gio Gonzalez | P | 30.7 | 2.9 | +27.8 |
| 1998 | 35 | Aaron Rowand | OF | 23.5 | 2.9 | +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 | 1.1 | +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 | 1.1 | +4.0 |
| 2000 | 82 | Michael Morse | 1B | 4.7 | 1.1 | +3.6 |
| 2005 | 455 | Chris Carter | 1B | 4.6 | 0.2 | +4.4 |
| Year | Picks | fWAR | Expected | DVOS |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1992 | 50 | 4.9 | 17.4 | -12.4 |
| 1993 | 49 | 14.0 | 18.3 | -4.3 |
| 1994 | 55 | 13.6 | 20.0 | -6.5 |
| 1995 | 54 | -2.5 | 17.6 | -20.2 |
| 1996 | 53 | 22.4 | 21.7 | +0.7 |
| 1997 | 57 | 2.9 | 30.0 | -27.1 |
| 1998 | 52 | 91.9 | 21.9 | +70.1 |
| 1999 | 54 | 7.6 | 29.7 | -22.1 |
| 2000 | 50 | 2.0 | 20.1 | -18.2 |
| 2004 | 54 | 34.3 | 27.6 | +6.7 |
| 2005 | 49 | 14.0 | 15.8 | -1.8 |
| 2006 | 50 | 3.3 | 13.5 | -10.2 |
| Total | 627 | 208 | โ | -45.3 |
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.