Orioles
2005–2011 · 7 drafts · 349 picks
| Pos | Picks | fWAR | DVOS |
|---|---|---|---|
| P | 24 | 75 | +40.2 |
| IF | 6 | 58 | +35.4 |
| C | 4 | 20 | +9.1 |
| OF | 9 | 0 | -8.3 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 3 | Manny Machado | 3B | 58.6 | 11.1 | +47.5 |
| 2007 | 159 | Jake Arrieta | P | 25.2 | 0.8 | +24.3 |
| 2007 | 5 | Matt Wieters | C | 15.5 | 9.0 | +6.5 |
| 2006 | 85 | Zack Britton | P | 10.2 | 1.0 | +9.2 |
| 2011 | 4 | Dylan Bundy | P | 10.1 | 10.4 | -0.3 |
| 2011 | 785 | Zach Davies | P | 10.1 | 0.1 | +10.0 |
| 2009 | 54 | Mychal Givens | P | 5.8 | 1.8 | +4.0 |
| 2005 | 483 | David Hernandez | P | 5.7 | 0.2 | +5.4 |
| 2008 | 4 | Brian Matusz | P | 4.5 | 10.4 | -6.0 |
| 2008 | 206 | Caleb Joseph | C | 4.3 | 0.8 | +3.5 |
| 2008 | 1286 | Oliver Drake | P | 1.8 | 0.1 | +1.7 |
| 2005 | 61 | Nolan Reimold | OF | 1.7 | 1.8 | -0.1 |
| 2011 | 305 | Tyler Wilson | P | 0.7 | 0.3 | +0.4 |
| 2010 | 268 | Parker Bridwell | P | 0.4 | 0.5 | -0.1 |
| 2006 | 175 | Jason Berken | P | 0.4 | 0.8 | -0.4 |
| Year | Picks | fWAR | Expected | DVOS |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2005 | 51 | 7.8 | 21.9 | -14.1 |
| 2006 | 51 | 10.0 | 22.7 | -12.7 |
| 2007 | 48 | 40.5 | 17.8 | +22.7 |
| 2008 | 50 | 9.3 | 23.0 | -13.7 |
| 2009 | 50 | 5.6 | 21.0 | -15.4 |
| 2010 | 49 | 59.1 | 21.3 | +37.8 |
| 2011 | 50 | 20.7 | 22.1 | -1.4 |
| Total | 349 | 153 | – | +3.2 |
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.