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2014โ2019 ยท 6 drafts ยท 241 picks
| Pos | Picks | fWAR | DVOS |
|---|---|---|---|
| IF | 12 | 44 | +26.2 |
| P | 27 | 44 | +25.1 |
| OF | 4 | 23 | +13.0 |
| C | 3 | -0 | -0.4 |
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 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 0) โ so we rank Hitter DVOS and leave pitcher out.
| Yr | Ovr | Player | Pos | fWAR | Exp | DVOS |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 169 | Dylan Cease | P | 26.3 | 0.8 | +25.4 |
| 2014 | 4 | Kyle Schwarber | DH | 24.4 | 10.4 | +14.0 |
| 2015 | 9 | Ian Happ | OF | 23.2 | 7.9 | +15.3 |
| 2018 | 24 | Nico Hoerner | 2B | 22.4 | 5.0 | +17.4 |
| 2014 | 139 | Justin Steele | P | 10.2 | 0.8 | +9.4 |
| 2017 | 195 | Jeremiah Estrada | P | 2.8 | 0.8 | +2.0 |
| 2015 | 82 | Bryan Hudson | P | 1.8 | 1.1 | +0.7 |
| 2019 | 252 | DJ Herz | P | 1.7 | 0.5 | +1.2 |
| 2015 | 443 | Scott Effross | P | 1.4 | 0.2 | +1.2 |
| 2017 | 105 | Keegan Thompson | P | 0.9 | 1.0 | -0.1 |
| 2017 | 30 | Alex Lange | P | 0.8 | 2.2 | -1.4 |
| 2017 | 465 | Jared Young | 1B | 0.7 | 0.2 | +0.5 |
| 2019 | 912 | Bryan King | P | 0.7 | 0.1 | +0.6 |
| 2014 | 199 | James Norwood | P | 0.3 | 0.8 | -0.5 |
| 2016 | 134 | Tyson Miller | P | 0.2 | 0.8 | -0.6 |
| Year | Picks | fWAR | Expected | DVOS |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 40 | 60.8 | 23.4 | +37.3 |
| 2015 | 40 | 25.5 | 20.0 | +5.5 |
| 2016 | 38 | -2.4 | 8.8 | -11.1 |
| 2017 | 41 | 2.6 | 15.2 | -12.5 |
| 2018 | 42 | 21.7 | 20.0 | +1.7 |
| 2019 | 40 | 2.7 | 12.8 | -10.1 |
| Total | 241 | 111 | โ | +10.8 |
DVOS = ฮฃ (a pick's career fWAR โ 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.