Mike Radcliff — Scouting Director

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

Pos	Picks	fWAR	DVOS
IF	29	88	+43.1
C	10	74	+39.2
OF	13	60	+33.4
P	56	93	+27.7

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
2001	1	Joe Mauer	C	53.5	23.5	+30.0
2002	20	Denard Span	OF	26.8	6.0	+20.8
1994	715	Corey Koskie	3B	26.7	0.1	+26.6
1999	89	Justin Morneau	1B	22.6	1.0	+21.6
1994	71	A.J. Pierzynski	C	21.6	1.9	+19.7
2005	25	Matt Garza	P	20.9	5.0	+16.0
1997	9	Michael Cuddyer	OF	17.1	7.8	+9.2
2003	58	Scott Baker	P	15.3	1.8	+13.5
1995	13	Mark Redman	P	14.5	7.9	+6.7
1996	37	Jacque Jones	OF	12.5	2.8	+9.6
1994	8	Todd Walker	2B	9.5	9.2	+0.2
1995	128	Doug Mientkiewicz	1B	8.7	1.0	+7.7
2007	28	Ben Revere	OF	7.8	2.2	+5.6
2004	22	Glen Perkins	P	7.6	5.0	+2.6
2005	73	Kevin Slowey	P	7.5	1.9	+5.6

By draft class

Year	Picks	fWAR	Expected	DVOS
1994	53	59.6	26.6	+33.0
1995	54	22.8	22.5	+0.2
1996	56	14.0	29.0	-15.0
1997	54	18.0	22.0	-4.0
1998	49	2.0	26.2	-24.1
1999	50	21.3	21.0	+0.3
2000	52	1.3	32.3	-31.0
2001	50	58.2	37.0	+21.2
2002	50	38.7	17.6	+21.1
2003	50	15.0	17.0	-2.0
2004	54	15.6	33.2	-17.7
2005	54	32.8	23.7	+9.1
2006	51	7.4	18.7	-11.3
2007	50	7.8	12.1	-4.4
Total	727	314	–	-24.6

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.