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Jaron Madison

Cubs, Padres

2010–2013 · 4 drafts · 187 picks

Early-Round Selection
+25.7
#17 of 172
rds 1–10, cost-ctrl
Late-Round Value
-10.9
#125 of 172
rds 11+, total career
Total DVOS
+27.9
#44 of 172
+6.97/draft
Hitter DVOS
+34.1
#68 of 172
reliable skill (+0.54)
Career fWAR drafted
132
#56 of 172

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

PosPicksfWARDVOS
P1965 +36.8
IF750 +23.8
C29 +7.6
OF58 +2.8

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

YrOvrPlayerPosfWARExpDVOS
20132Kris Bryant3B 29.214.1 +15.1
20127Max FriedP 26.89.2 +17.6
201233Zach EflinP 15.82.8 +13.0
201059Jedd Gyorko2B 11.61.8 +9.8
201182Austin HedgesC 9.21.0 +8.2
201125Joe RossP 7.04.9 +2.0
2012165Mallex SmithOF 5.00.8 +4.2
2011383Colin ReaP 4.70.3 +4.4
201158Jace Peterson2B 4.51.8 +2.7
2013288Zack GodleyP 4.50.5 +4.0
201110Cory Spangenberg2B 3.97.8 -3.9
2011112Matt AndrieseP 3.71.0 +2.7
201244Travis JankowskiOF 3.12.3 +0.8
2011233Matt WislerP 2.90.5 +2.4
2010424Tommy Medica1B 1.00.2 +0.8

By draft class

YearPicksfWARExpectedDVOS
20105011.7 19.4-7.7
20115335.2 28.8+6.4
20124450.3 28.5+21.8
20134034.3 26.9+7.4
Total187 132 +27.9

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.