Orioles
1985–1988 · 4 drafts · 180 picks
| Pos | Picks | fWAR | DVOS |
|---|---|---|---|
| OF | 2 | 42 | +41.1 |
| P | 16 | 53 | +28.5 |
| IF | 6 | 8 | +4.8 |
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.
| Yr | Ovr | Player | Pos | fWAR | Exp | DVOS |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1987 | 324 | Steve Finley | OF | 40.3 | 0.3 | +40.0 |
| 1987 | 27 | Pete Harnisch | P | 19.6 | 2.2 | +17.4 |
| 1988 | 34 | Arthur Rhodes | P | 17.4 | 2.8 | +14.6 |
| 1987 | 454 | David Segui | 1B | 11.7 | 0.2 | +11.4 |
| 1988 | 4 | Gregg Olson | P | 10.0 | 10.3 | -0.4 |
| 1985 | 177 | Jeff Ballard | P | 2.8 | 0.8 | +2.0 |
| 1987 | 65 | Anthony Telford | P | 2.2 | 1.8 | +0.4 |
| 1987 | 221 | Jack Voigt | OF | 1.6 | 0.5 | +1.1 |
| 1985 | 803 | Rico Rossy | 3B | 0.7 | 0.1 | +0.6 |
| 1985 | 99 | Brian Dubois | P | 0.4 | 1.0 | -0.7 |
| 1987 | 91 | Chuck Ricci | P | 0.2 | 1.0 | -0.8 |
| 1988 | 139 | Tom Martin | P | 0.2 | 0.8 | -0.6 |
| 1986 | 227 | Blaine Beatty | P | 0.2 | 0.5 | -0.3 |
| 1988 | 61 | Stacy Jones | P | 0.1 | 1.8 | -1.6 |
| Year | Picks | fWAR | Expected | DVOS |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1985 | 34 | 3.5 | 9.8 | -6.3 |
| 1986 | 48 | 0.1 | 14.7 | -14.6 |
| 1987 | 52 | 75.5 | 29.2 | +46.3 |
| 1988 | 46 | 24.3 | 28.0 | -3.7 |
| Total | 180 | 103 | – | +21.7 |
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.