Kevin Towers — Scouting Director

Early-Round Selection

-9.6

#119 of 172

rds 1–10, cost-ctrl

Late-Round Value

-9.5

#115 of 172

rds 11+, total career

Total DVOS

-41.5

#136 of 172

-20.73/draft

Hitter DVOS

-17.5

#164 of 172

reliable skill (+0.54)

Career fWAR drafted

#140 of 172

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

Pos	Picks	fWAR	DVOS
OF	3	1	+0.6
P	7	11	-4.4
IF	4	-2	-7.9
C	2	4	-10.3

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.

Top picks — who drove the value

Yr	Ovr	Player	Pos	fWAR	Exp	DVOS
1994	3	Dustin Hermanson	P	12.3	11.0	+1.3
1995	2	Ben Davis	C	4.1	14.0	-10.0
1995	425	John Rodriguez	OF	1.0	0.2	+0.8
1995	145	Kevin Walker	P	0.2	0.8	-0.6
1995	817	Dusty Allen	1B	0.1	0.1	+0.1

By draft class

Year	Picks	fWAR	Expected	DVOS
1994	54	10.5	26.2	-15.7
1995	52	3.3	29.1	-25.7
Total	106	14	–	-41.5

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.