Matt Swanson

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

Pos	Picks	fWAR	DVOS
P	17	25	-0.7
IF	5	-0	-9.7
OF	2	-1	-14.4

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
2020	10	Reid Detmers	P	7.9	7.8	+0.1
2018	121	Kyle Bradish	P	7.8	1.0	+6.8
2017	47	Griffin Canning	P	5.3	2.3	+3.0
2018	57	Jeremiah Jackson	2B	1.0	1.8	-0.7
2017	565	Isaac Mattson	P	0.9	0.2	+0.7
2018	391	Cooper Criswell	P	0.9	0.3	+0.6
2021	9	Sam Bachman	P	0.7	7.8	-7.1
2018	181	Austin Warren	P	0.6	0.8	-0.1
2019	92	Jack Kochanowicz	P	0.5	1.0	-0.6
2018	211	Andrew Wantz	P	0.5	0.8	-0.3
2019	211	Davis Daniel	P	0.4	0.8	-0.4
2019	841	Coleman Crow	P	0.4	0.1	+0.3
2017	10	Jo Adell	OF	0.2	7.8	-7.6
2018	601	Kyle Tyler	P	0.0	0.1	-0.0
2019	421	Zac Kristofak	P	0.0	0.2	-0.2

Year	Picks	fWAR	Expected	DVOS
2017	40	5.5	19.7	-14.3
2018	40	9.9	16.9	-6.9
2019	40	0.5	16.7	-16.2
2020	4	7.9	10.7	-2.8
2021	20	0.5	19.4	-19.0
Total	144	24	–	-59.1

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.

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

Top picks — who drove the value

By draft class