Rosternomics

← all scouting directors

Mike Shirley

White Sox

2021–present · 4 drafts · 81 picks

Early-Round Selection
-7.2
#104 of 172
rds 1–10, cost-ctrl
Late-Round Value
-10.1
#121 of 172
rds 11+, total career
Total DVOS
-52.5
#147 of 172
-13.12/draft
Hitter DVOS
-7.5
#144 of 172
reliable skill (+0.54)
Career fWAR drafted
12
#142 of 172

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

PosPicksfWARDVOS
OF30 -1.0
P77 -1.8
IF34 -6.4

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

YrOvrPlayerPosfWARExpDVOS
202122Colson MontgomerySS 5.14.9 +0.2
202351Grant TaylorP 2.91.8 +1.2
202194Sean BurkeP 2.71.0 +1.7
2022101Jonathan CannonP 1.41.0 +0.4
2024140Sam AntonacciOF 0.50.8 -0.3
202226Noah SchultzP 0.32.2 -1.9
2021245Fraser EllardP 0.10.5 -0.4

By draft class

YearPicksfWARExpectedDVOS
2021207.9 14.8-6.9
2022201.0 11.5-10.5
2023202.8 15.9-13.1
2024210.5 22.5-22.0
Total81 12 -52.5

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.