Astros
2013–2016 · 4 drafts · 163 picks
| Pos | Picks | fWAR | DVOS |
|---|---|---|---|
| IF | 11 | 56 | +33.2 |
| OF | 6 | 46 | +30.7 |
| C | 4 | 5 | +2.2 |
| P | 17 | 14 | -24.1 |
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.
| Yr | Ovr | Player | Pos | fWAR | Exp | DVOS |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 2 | Alex Bregman | 3B | 44.3 | 14.1 | +30.2 |
| 2015 | 5 | Kyle Tucker | OF | 26.1 | 8.9 | +17.2 |
| 2014 | 466 | Ramón Laureano | OF | 14.5 | 0.2 | +14.2 |
| 2015 | 319 | Patrick Sandoval | P | 8.9 | 0.3 | +8.6 |
| 2015 | 349 | Myles Straw | OF | 7.6 | 0.3 | +7.3 |
| 2014 | 75 | J.D. Davis | 3B | 6.8 | 1.9 | +4.9 |
| 2013 | 137 | Tony Kemp | 2B | 5.5 | 0.8 | +4.7 |
| 2016 | 97 | Jake Rogers | C | 5.1 | 1.0 | +4.0 |
| 2014 | 106 | Daniel Mengden | P | 2.7 | 1.0 | +1.6 |
| 2014 | 676 | Ryan Thompson | P | 2.4 | 0.1 | +2.3 |
| 2015 | 139 | Trent Thornton | P | 1.9 | 0.8 | +1.1 |
| 2013 | 977 | Tyler White | 1B | 0.7 | 0.1 | +0.6 |
| 2014 | 1006 | Josh James | P | 0.6 | 0.1 | +0.6 |
| 2013 | 167 | Jacob Nottingham | C | 0.5 | 0.8 | -0.4 |
| 2013 | 1 | Mark Appel | P | 0.1 | 23.4 | -23.3 |
| Year | Picks | fWAR | Expected | DVOS |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | 40 | 5.6 | 36.7 | -31.1 |
| 2014 | 41 | 25.0 | 39.0 | -14.1 |
| 2015 | 42 | 86.6 | 38.6 | +47.9 |
| 2016 | 40 | 3.3 | 16.9 | -13.6 |
| Total | 163 | 120 | – | -10.8 |
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.