Red Sox
1983–1992 · 8 drafts · 289 picks
| Pos | Picks | fWAR | DVOS |
|---|---|---|---|
| IF | 15 | 158 | +140.3 |
| P | 19 | 50 | +33.5 |
| OF | 6 | 35 | +23.4 |
| C | 7 | 21 | +15.3 |
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.
| Yr | Ovr | Player | Pos | fWAR | Exp | DVOS |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1989 | 109 | Jeff Bagwell | 1B | 80.2 | 1.0 | +79.2 |
| 1985 | 257 | Brady Anderson | OF | 32.6 | 0.5 | +32.1 |
| 1988 | 121 | John Valentin | 3B | 31.4 | 1.0 | +30.4 |
| 1989 | 23 | Mo Vaughn | 1B | 31.1 | 4.9 | +26.2 |
| 1991 | 23 | Aaron Sele | P | 29.2 | 4.9 | +24.2 |
| 1989 | 161 | Paul Quantrill | P | 14.2 | 0.8 | +13.4 |
| 1988 | 199 | Tim Naehring | 3B | 11.8 | 0.8 | +11.0 |
| 1991 | 43 | Scott Hatteberg | C | 9.4 | 2.3 | +7.1 |
| 1986 | 69 | Scott Cooper | 3B | 6.6 | 1.9 | +4.7 |
| 1985 | 153 | Todd Pratt | C | 6.4 | 0.8 | +5.6 |
| 1990 | 41 | Frankie Rodriguez | P | 4.9 | 2.3 | +2.5 |
| 1987 | 291 | Phil Plantier | OF | 3.1 | 0.5 | +2.7 |
| 1988 | 641 | John Flaherty | C | 2.9 | 0.1 | +2.9 |
| 1992 | 1318 | Brian Johnson | C | 2.2 | 0.1 | +2.1 |
| 1991 | 486 | Ron Mahay | P | 1.5 | 0.2 | +1.2 |
| Year | Picks | fWAR | Expected | DVOS |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1985 | 27 | 39.0 | 18.3 | +20.7 |
| 1986 | 23 | 6.6 | 18.9 | -12.3 |
| 1987 | 32 | 1.8 | 16.8 | -15.0 |
| 1988 | 38 | 45.7 | 21.8 | +23.8 |
| 1989 | 43 | 125.6 | 25.2 | +100.4 |
| 1990 | 35 | 4.6 | 12.3 | -7.7 |
| 1991 | 42 | 40.0 | 23.7 | +16.3 |
| 1992 | 49 | -0.2 | 12.2 | -12.4 |
| Total | 289 | 263 | – | +113.8 |
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.