R J Harrison — Scouting Director

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

Pos	Picks	fWAR	DVOS
P	45	126	+76.9
IF	13	96	+48.8
OF	10	42	+32.9
C	7	4	-2.8

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
2006	3	Evan Longoria	3B	55.2	11.1	+44.1
2007	1	David Price	P	42.5	23.5	+19.0
2010	941	Kevin Kiermaier	OF	26.6	0.1	+26.5
2011	52	Blake Snell	P	26.5	1.8	+24.7
2006	109	Alex Cobb	P	19.5	1.0	+18.5
2015	87	Brandon Lowe	2B	19.5	1.0	+18.4
2015	208	Jake Cronenworth	1B	14.7	0.8	+13.9
2010	251	Merrill Kelly	P	13.5	0.5	+13.0
2006	289	Desmond Jennings	OF	12.0	0.5	+11.6
2007	245	Matt Moore	P	8.8	0.5	+8.3
2012	422	Dylan Floro	P	6.4	0.2	+6.2
2010	79	Derek Dietrich	2B	6.1	1.9	+4.2
2007	365	Stephen Vogt	C	3.6	0.3	+3.3
2010	191	Jesse Hahn	P	3.3	0.8	+2.5
2008	1	Tim Beckham	SS	2.9	23.5	-20.6

By draft class

Year	Picks	fWAR	Expected	DVOS
2006	50	86.8	24.6	+62.2
2007	50	55.0	35.2	+19.8
2008	50	3.7	37.0	-33.3
2009	50	0.2	13.4	-13.2
2010	53	49.2	24.3	+25.0
2011	59	25.1	34.8	-9.7
2012	40	11.6	14.3	-2.7
2013	41	2.5	18.3	-15.8
2014	41	0.2	18.9	-18.8
2015	40	34.5	19.3	+15.2
Total	474	269	–	+28.7

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.