Rosternomics

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Lee MacPhail IV

Guardians

1997โ€“1998 ยท 2 drafts ยท 102 picks

Early-Round Selection
+11.1
#37 of 172
rds 1โ€“10, cost-ctrl
Late-Round Value
-8.6
#110 of 172
rds 11+, total career
Total DVOS
+41.3
#32 of 172
+20.67/draft
Hitter DVOS
+1.6
#110 of 172
reliable skill (+0.54)
Career fWAR drafted
77
#85 of 172

Value by position โ€” where the value came from (descriptive)

PosPicksfWARDVOS
P573 +63.3
OF14 +4.0
IF2-0 -2.4

Position from each player's primary MLB fielding spot; never-MLB picks excluded. This table is descriptive, not a skill ranking โ€” per-position DVOS isn't reliable at this granularity (split-half โ‰ˆ 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 (โ‰ˆ 0) โ€” so we rank Hitter DVOS and leave pitcher out.

Top picks โ€” who drove the value

YrOvrPlayerPosfWARExpDVOS
199820CC SabathiaP 67.26.0 +61.2
1998153Ryan DreseP 6.60.8 +5.7
1997291Dustan MohrOF 4.40.5 +4.0

By draft class

YearPicksfWARExpectedDVOS
1997523.8 17.7-13.9
19985073.0 17.8+55.2
Total102 77โ€“ +41.3

DVOS = ฮฃ (a pick's career fWAR โˆ’ 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 โ€” see the coverage note on the leaderboard. Single drafts are noise-dominated โ€” one star swamps a class โ€” so read the multi-year totals, not any one year. Full method on the DVOS page.