Randy Smith — Scouting Director

Early-Round Selection

-5.2

#86 of 172

rds 1–10, cost-ctrl

Late-Round Value

-6.9

#94 of 172

rds 11+, total career

Total DVOS

-24.8

#108 of 172

-8.27/draft

Hitter DVOS

-5.3

#138 of 172

reliable skill (+0.54)

Career fWAR drafted

#120 of 172

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

Pos	Picks	fWAR	DVOS
P	17	34	+14.3
IF	4	2	-1.2
C	2	-1	-1.8
OF	3	-1	-2.3

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
1991	8	Joey Hamilton	P	16.3	9.2	+7.1
1990	32	Scott Sanders	P	8.1	2.8	+5.3
1989	518	Tim Worrell	P	8.1	0.2	+7.9
1991	185	Homer Bush	2B	1.8	0.8	+1.0
1990	664	Lance Painter	P	1.5	0.1	+1.4
1991	991	Rich Loiselle	P	0.6	0.1	+0.6
1990	456	Matt Mieske	OF	0.2	0.2	+0.0
1989	128	Dave Staton	1B	0.2	1.0	-0.8

By draft class

Year	Picks	fWAR	Expected	DVOS
1989	42	6.6	14.3	-7.7
1990	53	9.0	18.7	-9.7
1991	58	18.0	25.4	-7.4
Total	153	34	–	-24.8

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.