Mickey White

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

Pos	Picks	fWAR	DVOS
OF	5	59	+58.0
IF	5	24	+22.6
P	16	43	+22.3
C	2	-8	-11.1

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
2000	599	José Bautista	OF	35.2	0.2	+34.9
1993	671	Richie Sexson	1B	16.8	0.1	+16.8
2001	594	Zach Duke	P	16.4	0.2	+16.1
2000	89	Chris Young	P	13.6	1.0	+12.5
2001	1134	Rajai Davis	OF	11.5	0.1	+11.4
2000	749	Nate McLouth	OF	10.2	0.1	+10.2
2000	779	Ian Snell	P	7.2	0.1	+7.1
1993	223	Steve Kline	P	3.9	0.5	+3.4
2001	114	Jeff Keppinger	2B	3.9	1.0	+2.9
2001	984	Chris Shelton	1B	3.3	0.1	+3.3
2001	234	Chris Duffy	OF	2.0	0.5	+1.5
2000	19	Sean Burnett	P	1.2	5.9	-4.7
1993	111	Travis Driskill	P	0.8	1.0	-0.2
2001	1280	Shane Youman	P	0.7	0.1	+0.6
1999	932	Walter Young	1B	0.0	0.1	-0.1

Year	Picks	fWAR	Expected	DVOS
1993	72	21.5	21.3	+0.2
1999	50	-8.5	20.8	-29.2
2000	50	67.4	17.9	+49.5
2001	49	37.1	19.3	+17.8
Total	221	117	–	+38.2

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.

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

Top picks — who drove the value

By draft class