Lin Garrett — Scouting Director

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

Pos	Picks	fWAR	DVOS
P	36	47	+16.2
IF	11	18	+6.8
C	1	-1	-1.4
OF	7	0	-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

Yr	Ovr	Player	Pos	fWAR	Exp	DVOS
1996	20	Eric Milton	P	17.8	5.9	+11.9
2004	23	Phil Hughes	P	17.5	4.9	+12.5
1996	89	Nick Johnson	1B	14.9	1.0	+13.9
2002	786	Phil Coke	P	4.0	0.1	+3.9
1997	169	Randy Choate	P	3.5	0.8	+2.6
1998	1027	Brandon Claussen	P	2.9	0.1	+2.8
1996	899	Marcus Thames	DH	2.7	0.1	+2.6
2004	999	Mike Dunn	P	2.5	0.1	+2.5
2002	246	Brad Halsey	P	2.2	0.5	+1.7
1996	149	Zach Day	P	1.6	0.8	+0.8
2001	62	Shelley Duncan	DH	1.4	1.8	-0.3
2002	726	Dane De La Rosa	P	0.9	0.1	+0.8
1996	1729	Clay Condrey	P	0.5	0.1	+0.5
1997	289	Randy Flores	P	0.4	0.5	-0.1
1997	1219	Mike Vento	OF	0.3	0.1	+0.3

By draft class

Year	Picks	fWAR	Expected	DVOS
1996	100	35.9	20.7	+15.2
1997	69	3.6	19.1	-15.4
1998	51	1.0	19.0	-17.9
1999	50	-1.3	13.3	-14.6
2000	50	-1.8	13.9	-15.7
2001	53	-0.9	23.5	-24.4
2002	48	7.1	10.6	-3.6
2004	52	20.0	22.2	-2.2
Total	473	64	–	-78.6

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.