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Mike Shirley

White Sox

2021–present Β· 4 drafts Β· 81 picks

Early-Round Selection
-4.2
#82 of 172
rds 1–10, cost-ctrl
Late-Round Value
-10.3
#122 of 172
rds 11+, total career
Total DVOS
-50.1
#142 of 172
-12.52/draft
Hitter DVOS
-6.3
#142 of 172
reliable skill (+0.54)
Career fWAR drafted
16
#141 of 172

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

PosPicksfWARDVOS
OF32 +0.2
IF35 -6.5
P109 -10.1

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 5.35.0 +0.3
202351Grant TaylorP 3.91.8 +2.1
202194Sean BurkeP 3.71.1 +2.7
2024140Sam AntonacciOF 1.90.8 +1.0
2022101Jonathan CannonP 1.31.0 +0.3
202226Noah SchultzP 0.32.2 -1.9
20245Hagen SmithP 0.19.0 -8.9
2021245Fraser EllardP 0.10.5 -0.4
2022401Mason AdamsP 0.00.2 -0.2
2022161Tyler SchweitzerP 0.00.8 -0.8

By draft class

YearPicksfWARExpectedDVOS
2021209.0 15.0-6.0
2022201.0 11.7-10.7
2023203.6 16.2-12.6
2024212.0 22.7-20.8
Total81 16– -50.1

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.