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Mike Shirley

White Sox

2021–present Β· 4 drafts Β· 81 picks

Early-Round Selection
-2.5
#76 of 172
rds 1–10, cost-ctrl
Late-Round Value
-10.1
#119 of 172
rds 11+, total career
Total DVOS
-48.5
#141 of 172
-12.12/draft
Hitter DVOS
-5.6
#141 of 172
reliable skill (+0.54)
Career fWAR drafted
18
#140 of 172

Value by position β€” where the value came from (descriptive)

PosPicksfWARDVOS
OF32 +0.7
IF35 -6.3
P1010 -9.0

Position from each player's primary MLB fielding spot; never-MLB picks excluded. This table is descriptive, not a skill ranking β€” per-position DVOS isn't reliable at this granularity (split-half β‰ˆ 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 (β‰ˆ 0) β€” so we rank Hitter DVOS and leave pitcher out.

Top picks β€” who drove the value

YrOvrPlayerPosfWARExpDVOS
202122Colson MontgomerySS 5.55.0 +0.5
202194Sean BurkeP 4.31.1 +3.2
202351Grant TaylorP 3.71.8 +1.9
2024140Sam AntonacciOF 2.30.8 +1.5
2022101Jonathan CannonP 1.31.0 +0.3
20245Hagen SmithP 0.89.0 -8.3
202226Noah SchultzP 0.32.3 -1.9
2022401Mason AdamsP 0.20.2 -0.1
2022161Tyler SchweitzerP 0.10.8 -0.8
2021245Fraser EllardP 0.10.5 -0.4

By draft class

YearPicksfWARExpectedDVOS
2021209.8 15.1-5.3
2022201.2 11.7-10.6
2023203.5 16.3-12.8
2024213.1 22.8-19.8
Total81 18– -48.5

DVOS = Ξ£ (a pick's career fWAR βˆ’ 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 β€” see the coverage note on the leaderboard. Single drafts are noise-dominated β€” one star swamps a class β€” so read the multi-year totals, not any one year. Full method on the DVOS page.