Marti Wolever — Scouting Director

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

Pos	Picks	fWAR	DVOS
P	64	162	+109.5
IF	14	31	+15.2
OF	13	27	+12.1
C	9	13	+4.1

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
2002	17	Cole Hamels	P	53.0	5.9	+47.1
2014	7	Aaron Nola	P	38.0	9.2	+28.9
2003	115	Michael Bourn	OF	21.8	1.0	+20.8
2004	92	J.A. Happ	P	21.0	1.0	+19.9
2007	37	Travis d'Arnaud	C	20.4	2.8	+17.5
2013	16	J.P. Crawford	SS	18.5	5.7	+12.8
2014	142	Rhys Hoskins	1B	12.2	0.8	+11.3
2011	241	Ken Giles	P	9.5	0.5	+9.0
2008	102	Vance Worley	P	6.1	1.0	+5.0
2003	595	Brad Ziegler	P	6.0	0.2	+5.7
2003	205	Kyle Kendrick	P	5.8	0.8	+5.0
2008	136	Trevor May	P	5.6	0.8	+4.8
2007	923	Jake Diekman	P	4.5	0.1	+4.5
2009	617	Darin Ruf	1B	3.3	0.1	+3.2
2012	248	Hoby Milner	P	2.9	0.5	+2.4

By draft class

Year	Picks	fWAR	Expected	DVOS
2002	48	52.8	17.7	+35.0
2003	48	33.5	10.2	+23.4
2004	50	15.6	16.5	-0.9
2005	49	-0.2	11.6	-11.8
2006	51	0.9	20.3	-19.4
2007	52	24.8	20.0	+4.8
2008	53	16.6	21.7	-5.1
2009	49	3.6	11.1	-7.6
2010	50	3.0	13.3	-10.3
2011	51	10.4	14.6	-4.2
2012	42	2.5	15.8	-13.3
2013	41	19.1	17.8	+1.4
2014	40	50.3	21.1	+29.2
Total	624	233	–	+21.2

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.