Ray Montgomery — Scouting Director

Early-Round Selection

+6.4

#47 of 172

rds 1–10, cost-ctrl

Late-Round Value

-20.4

#152 of 172

rds 11+, total career

Total DVOS

-49.9

#144 of 172

-9.98/draft

Hitter DVOS

-14.1

#160 of 172

reliable skill (+0.54)

Career fWAR drafted

#108 of 172

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

Pos	Picks	fWAR	DVOS
P	19	32	+6.6
C	2	0	-2.6
IF	9	1	-4.9
OF	7	12	-6.6

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
2016	111	Corbin Burnes	P	22.4	1.0	+21.4
2015	15	Trent Grisham	OF	13.1	5.7	+7.4
2013	240	Brad Keller	P	8.9	0.5	+8.4
2012	213	Jake Lamb	3B	8.0	0.8	+7.2
2016	46	Lucas Erceg	P	3.3	2.3	+1.0
2013	300	James Sherfy	P	0.2	0.5	-0.3
2013	420	Steve Hathaway	P	0.2	0.2	-0.1
2016	75	Mario Feliciano	C	0.1	1.9	-1.8
2016	171	Payton Henry	C	0.0	0.8	-0.8
2014	69	Marcus Wilson	OF	0.0	1.9	-1.9

By draft class

Year	Picks	fWAR	Expected	DVOS
2012	40	7.2	11.5	-4.3
2013	41	5.3	19.9	-14.6
2014	42	-4.2	20.9	-25.1
2015	40	12.2	19.3	-7.1
2016	41	23.9	22.8	+1.2
Total	204	44	–	-49.9

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.