Jack Zduriencik — Scouting Director

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

Pos	Picks	fWAR	DVOS
OF	18	117	+84.5
C	4	75	+68.4
IF	18	80	+34.6
P	42	61	+29.8

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

Yr	Ovr	Player	Pos	fWAR	Exp	DVOS
2005	5	Ryan Braun	OF	43.8	9.0	+34.8
1992	23	Jason Kendall	C	36.5	5.0	+31.6
2007	101	Jonathan Lucroy	C	35.2	1.0	+34.2
2004	496	Lorenzo Cain	OF	30.6	0.2	+30.3
2005	205	Michael Brantley	OF	28.5	0.8	+27.7
2001	56	J.J. Hardy	SS	27.5	1.8	+25.6
2002	7	Prince Fielder	1B	27.4	9.2	+18.2
2004	46	Yovani Gallardo	P	24.4	2.4	+22.0
2003	2	Rickie Weeks Jr.	2B	18.1	14.2	+4.0
2008	32	Jake Odorizzi	P	15.7	2.8	+12.9
2000	321	Corey Hart	OF	13.0	0.3	+12.7
2008	16	Brett Lawrie	2B	9.5	5.8	+3.8
2001	778	Manny Parra	P	5.6	0.1	+5.6
2003	39	Tony Gwynn Jr.	OF	4.5	2.8	+1.6
2006	16	Jeremy Jeffress	P	3.9	5.8	-1.8

By draft class

Year	Picks	fWAR	Expected	DVOS
1991	59	0.7	19.9	-19.1
1992	52	33.2	22.4	+10.7
1993	56	-0.5	24.4	-24.9
2000	49	13.0	18.1	-5.1
2001	50	33.0	19.9	+13.1
2002	42	33.6	22.2	+11.3
2003	50	26.1	28.7	-2.6
2004	50	56.1	22.4	+33.6
2005	49	72.5	19.2	+53.3
2006	50	3.5	17.4	-13.9
2007	46	33.5	18.3	+15.2
2008	54	27.6	26.8	+0.8
Total	607	332	–	+72.4

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.