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Lonnie Goldberg

Royals

2012–2013, 2015–2017 · 5 drafts · 202 picks

Early-Round Selection
-18.4
#154 of 172
rds 1–10, cost-ctrl
Late-Round Value
+0.2
#49 of 172
rds 11+, total career
Total DVOS
-50.2
#145 of 172
-10.04/draft
Hitter DVOS
-12.3
#156 of 172
reliable skill (+0.54)
Career fWAR drafted
42
#112 of 172

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

PosPicksfWARDVOS
P2333 +11.2
C1-0 -0.4
OF5-2 -5.6
IF810 -6.3

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

YrOvrPlayerPosfWARExpDVOS
201334Sean ManaeaP 17.02.8 +14.2
2012643Matt StrahmP 8.70.1 +8.7
2016163Nicky Lopez2B 7.80.8 +7.0
2017450Robert GarciaP 2.60.2 +2.4
2016613Anthony BenderP 2.60.1 +2.6
201564Josh StaumontP 1.71.8 -0.1
2012583Andrew TriggsP 1.50.2 +1.2
2015579Emmanuel Rivera3B 1.40.2 +1.2
2012673Alec MillsP 1.00.1 +0.9
2013534Frank Schwindel1B 0.90.2 +0.7
2013474Kevin McCarthyP 0.90.2 +0.7
20138Hunter Dozier3B 0.79.2 -8.5
2012283Daniel StumpfP 0.30.5 -0.2
2017360Collin SniderP 0.30.3 -0.0
20125Kyle ZimmerP 0.28.9 -8.7

By draft class

YearPicksfWARExpectedDVOS
20124010.2 19.5-9.3
20134118.5 23.9-5.4
2015412.9 18.8-15.8
2016399.5 10.5-1.1
2017410.3 19.0-18.6
Total202 42– -50.2

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.

Rosternomics — quantifying front-office skill, attribution-clean. Follow @rosternomics on X. Decision-makers on record back to 1933; resource-controlled metrics (WAR & payroll) cover 1985–2026.
Data: FanGraphs (WAR), Baseball-Reference & the Chadwick Bureau register (rosters, IDs), the Lahman Database, Baseball America prospect rankings (via The Baseball Cube), and public payroll records. Transaction and trade data was obtained free of charge from and is copyrighted by Retrosheet. Executive birth/death data via Wikidata (CC0); bios are original. Emoji graphics by OpenMoji (CC BY-SA 4.0).
All figures are franchise-level outcomes credited to the decision-maker in the acquisition year — not solely attributable to one executive.