Cubs
2001–2005 · 5 drafts · 254 picks
| Pos | Picks | fWAR | DVOS |
|---|---|---|---|
| P | 19 | 81 | +55.9 |
| C | 4 | 16 | +15.2 |
| IF | 9 | 12 | +7.4 |
| OF | 4 | 3 | +0.4 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2001 | 108 | Ricky Nolasco | P | 26.5 | 1.0 | +25.5 |
| 2002 | 112 | Rich Hill | P | 19.8 | 1.0 | +18.7 |
| 2001 | 2 | Mark Prior | P | 17.3 | 14.1 | +3.2 |
| 2001 | 318 | Geovany Soto | C | 15.7 | 0.3 | +15.4 |
| 2003 | 163 | Sean Marshall | P | 9.0 | 0.8 | +8.2 |
| 2001 | 78 | Ryan Theriot | 2B | 7.6 | 1.9 | +5.7 |
| 2002 | 1143 | Randy Wells | P | 5.5 | 0.1 | +5.4 |
| 2003 | 283 | Casey McGehee | 3B | 4.2 | 0.5 | +3.7 |
| 2004 | 306 | Sam Fuld | OF | 4.1 | 0.3 | +3.8 |
| 2004 | 516 | Jerry Blevins | P | 4.0 | 0.2 | +3.7 |
| 2001 | 138 | Brendan Harris | SS | 1.1 | 0.8 | +0.3 |
| 2003 | 133 | Darin Downs | P | 0.2 | 0.8 | -0.6 |
| 2001 | 46 | Andrew Sisco | P | 0.1 | 2.3 | -2.2 |
| 2004 | 366 | Sean Gallagher | P | 0.1 | 0.3 | -0.2 |
| 2002 | 273 | Adam Greenberg | PH | 0.0 | 0.5 | -0.5 |
| Year | Picks | fWAR | Expected | DVOS |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2001 | 49 | 68.2 | 26.7 | +41.6 |
| 2002 | 56 | 24.3 | 28.8 | -4.5 |
| 2003 | 49 | 12.2 | 23.7 | -11.5 |
| 2004 | 49 | 6.8 | 11.7 | -4.9 |
| 2005 | 51 | -0.0 | 18.6 | -18.6 |
| Total | 254 | 112 | – | +2.1 |
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.