Marti Wolever — Scouting Director

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

Pos	Picks	fWAR	DVOS
P	64	162	+109.0
IF	14	31	+14.9
OF	13	27	+12.0
C	9	13	+4.0

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	6.0	+47.0
2014	7	Aaron Nola	P	37.9	9.2	+28.7
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	20.3	2.8	+17.5
2013	16	J.P. Crawford	SS	18.7	5.8	+12.9
2014	142	Rhys Hoskins	1B	11.9	0.8	+11.1
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	2.7	0.5	+2.3

By draft class

Year	Picks	fWAR	Expected	DVOS
2002	48	52.8	17.9	+34.9
2003	48	33.5	10.2	+23.3
2004	50	15.6	16.6	-1.0
2005	49	-0.2	11.7	-11.9
2006	51	0.9	20.5	-19.6
2007	52	24.8	20.1	+4.6
2008	53	16.6	21.8	-5.2
2009	49	3.6	11.2	-7.6
2010	50	3.0	13.3	-10.4
2011	51	10.4	14.7	-4.3
2012	42	2.3	15.9	-13.6
2013	41	19.5	17.9	+1.6
2014	40	49.9	21.2	+28.7
Total	624	232	–	+19.5

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.