Jim Fleming — Scouting Director

Early-Round Selection

+1.7

#63 of 172

rds 1–10, cost-ctrl

Late-Round Value

+8.5

#29 of 172

rds 11+, total career

Total DVOS

+74.8

#19 of 172

+24.95/draft

Hitter DVOS

+82.3

#29 of 172

reliable skill (+0.54)

Career fWAR drafted

143

#51 of 172

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

Pos	Picks	fWAR	DVOS
OF	7	62	+55.3
P	8	52	+39.1
IF	2	29	+27.0

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
2000	105	Cliff Lee	P	48.9	1.0	+47.9
2000	75	Grady Sizemore	OF	29.7	1.9	+27.8
1999	57	Brandon Phillips	2B	29.4	1.8	+27.6
2000	645	Jason Bay	OF	21.5	0.1	+21.4
1998	33	Brad Wilkerson	OF	12.4	2.8	+9.5
2000	165	Shawn Hill	P	3.4	0.8	+2.6
1998	534	Jimmy Serrano	P	0.3	0.2	+0.1

By draft class

Year	Picks	fWAR	Expected	DVOS
1998	47	12.7	23.3	-10.7
1999	48	27.6	24.5	+3.1
2000	49	102.4	20.0	+82.4
Total	144	143	–	+74.8

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.