Rays
2016–2022 · 7 drafts · 216 picks
| Pos | Picks | fWAR | DVOS |
|---|---|---|---|
| IF | 10 | 11 | +0.3 |
| P | 32 | 37 | -1.7 |
| OF | 5 | 10 | -7.7 |
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.
| Yr | Ovr | Player | Pos | fWAR | Exp | DVOS |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | 210 | Joe Ryan | P | 14.6 | 0.8 | +13.8 |
| 2016 | 390 | Nathaniel Lowe | 1B | 10.9 | 0.3 | +10.6 |
| 2018 | 31 | Shane McClanahan | P | 10.2 | 2.8 | +7.3 |
| 2018 | 150 | Taj Bradley | P | 5.7 | 0.8 | +4.9 |
| 2016 | 13 | Josh Lowe | OF | 4.7 | 7.9 | -3.2 |
| 2016 | 77 | Jake Fraley | OF | 3.9 | 1.9 | +2.0 |
| 2018 | 16 | Matthew Liberatore | P | 3.3 | 5.8 | -2.4 |
| 2022 | 70 | Chandler Simpson | OF | 1.9 | 1.9 | -0.0 |
| 2020 | 57 | Ian Seymour | P | 1.7 | 1.8 | -0.1 |
| 2021 | 191 | Mason Montgomery | P | 1.4 | 0.8 | +0.6 |
| 2017 | 79 | Taylor Walls | SS | 1.3 | 1.9 | -0.6 |
| 2021 | 63 | Kyle Manzardo | 1B | 1.0 | 1.8 | -0.8 |
| 2017 | 4 | Brendan McKay | P | 0.8 | 10.4 | -9.6 |
| 2017 | 229 | Riley O'Brien | P | 0.5 | 0.5 | +0.1 |
| 2019 | 368 | Nick Sogard | 2B | 0.4 | 0.3 | +0.1 |
| Year | Picks | fWAR | Expected | DVOS |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | 41 | 19.0 | 21.2 | -2.2 |
| 2017 | 41 | 1.9 | 26.7 | -24.8 |
| 2018 | 43 | 33.8 | 24.8 | +8.9 |
| 2019 | 42 | -0.3 | 21.7 | -22.1 |
| 2020 | 6 | 1.2 | 12.5 | -11.3 |
| 2021 | 21 | 1.3 | 14.6 | -13.3 |
| 2022 | 22 | 1.5 | 15.4 | -13.8 |
| Total | 216 | 58 | – | -78.7 |
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.