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Joe Klein III

Tigers

1981–1982, 1992–1993 · 2 drafts · 115 picks

Early-Round Selection
-5.2
#88 of 172
rds 1–10, cost-ctrl
Late-Round Value
+7.4
#31 of 172
rds 11+, total career
Total DVOS
+3.8
#61 of 172
+1.89/draft
Hitter DVOS
+25.3
#79 of 172
reliable skill (+0.54)
Career fWAR drafted
43
#110 of 172

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

PosPicksfWARDVOS
OF430 +29.3
P1315 +5.1
C10 -0.2
IF3-2 -3.7

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
1992336Bobby HigginsonOF 17.80.3 +17.5
1993165Brian MoehlerP 15.60.8 +14.8
1992280Frank CatalanottoOF 12.00.5 +11.5
1993305Glen BarkerOF 0.60.3 +0.3
1993333Bryan CoreyP 0.10.3 -0.2

By draft class

YearPicksfWARExpectedDVOS
19925026.8 17.9+8.9
19936515.8 20.9-5.1
Total115 43 +3.8

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.