Orioles, Mets, Giants
1989–1990, 1994–1997, 2008–2012 · 11 drafts · 587 picks
| Pos | Picks | fWAR | DVOS |
|---|---|---|---|
| P | 55 | 214 | +119.7 |
| IF | 16 | 88 | +75.0 |
| C | 8 | 71 | +58.3 |
| OF | 18 | 30 | +9.8 |
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.
| Yr | Ovr | Player | Pos | fWAR | Exp | DVOS |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1990 | 20 | Mike Mussina | P | 81.3 | 6.0 | +75.3 |
| 2008 | 5 | Buster Posey | C | 57.9 | 9.0 | +48.9 |
| 2009 | 6 | Zack Wheeler | P | 44.5 | 12.7 | +31.7 |
| 1995 | 217 | A.J. Burnett | P | 41.9 | 0.8 | +41.1 |
| 2008 | 117 | Brandon Crawford | SS | 30.9 | 1.0 | +29.8 |
| 2009 | 147 | Brandon Belt | 1B | 27.1 | 0.8 | +26.2 |
| 1989 | 1 | Ben McDonald | P | 20.5 | 23.5 | -3.0 |
| 1989 | 425 | Gregg Zaun | C | 15.3 | 0.2 | +15.0 |
| 1994 | 29 | Jay Payton | OF | 12.0 | 2.2 | +9.8 |
| 2010 | 348 | Adam Duvall | OF | 11.0 | 0.3 | +10.7 |
| 1989 | 217 | Mike Lansing | 2B | 10.0 | 0.8 | +9.2 |
| 2012 | 568 | Matt Duffy | 3B | 9.0 | 0.2 | +8.7 |
| 2011 | 29 | Joe Panik | 2B | 8.4 | 2.2 | +6.2 |
| 1994 | 1 | Paul Wilson | P | 8.0 | 23.5 | -15.6 |
| 1994 | 20 | Terrence Long | OF | 4.9 | 6.0 | -1.1 |
| Year | Picks | fWAR | Expected | DVOS |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1989 | 46 | 48.2 | 41.9 | +6.3 |
| 1990 | 45 | 83.6 | 20.0 | +63.7 |
| 1994 | 79 | 26.3 | 51.1 | -24.7 |
| 1995 | 63 | 44.1 | 20.7 | +23.4 |
| 1996 | 55 | 1.9 | 21.6 | -19.8 |
| 1997 | 58 | -2.5 | 25.2 | -27.7 |
| 2008 | 50 | 89.0 | 22.0 | +67.0 |
| 2009 | 50 | 71.9 | 24.8 | +47.2 |
| 2010 | 50 | 11.1 | 16.1 | -5.0 |
| 2011 | 51 | 12.6 | 14.9 | -2.3 |
| 2012 | 40 | 17.4 | 15.7 | +1.7 |
| Total | 587 | 404 | – | +129.7 |
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.