Braves
2000–2009 · 10 drafts · 520 picks
| Pos | Picks | fWAR | DVOS |
|---|---|---|---|
| P | 50 | 160 | +108.3 |
| IF | 15 | 118 | +104.5 |
| C | 5 | 77 | +71.3 |
| OF | 9 | 40 | +27.2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | 78 | Freddie Freeman | 1B | 65.7 | 1.9 | +63.8 |
| 2000 | 29 | Adam Wainwright | P | 52.6 | 2.2 | +50.4 |
| 2002 | 64 | Brian McCann | C | 52.1 | 1.8 | +50.4 |
| 2007 | 14 | Jason Heyward | OF | 34.8 | 5.7 | +29.2 |
| 2002 | 95 | Charlie Morton | P | 28.6 | 1.0 | +27.6 |
| 2005 | 75 | Yunel Escobar | 3B | 23.7 | 1.9 | +21.8 |
| 2008 | 96 | Craig Kimbrel | P | 21.4 | 1.0 | +20.3 |
| 2005 | 1007 | Tyler Flowers | C | 19.4 | 0.1 | +19.4 |
| 2000 | 38 | Kelly Johnson | 2B | 18.3 | 2.8 | +15.5 |
| 2009 | 7 | Mike Minor | P | 17.7 | 9.1 | +8.6 |
| 2000 | 880 | Adam LaRoche | 1B | 11.6 | 0.1 | +11.5 |
| 2006 | 310 | Kris Medlen | P | 8.7 | 0.3 | +8.4 |
| 2003 | 97 | Matt Harrison | P | 7.9 | 1.0 | +6.9 |
| 2005 | 677 | Tommy Hanson | P | 6.2 | 0.1 | +6.1 |
| 2002 | 23 | Jeff Francoeur | OF | 5.5 | 4.9 | +0.6 |
| Year | Picks | fWAR | Expected | DVOS |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 55 | 86.1 | 24.5 | +61.7 |
| 2001 | 53 | 4.2 | 22.8 | -18.6 |
| 2002 | 52 | 86.1 | 21.1 | +65.0 |
| 2003 | 53 | 15.1 | 21.5 | -6.5 |
| 2004 | 49 | -0.0 | 11.1 | -11.1 |
| 2005 | 52 | 50.6 | 17.5 | +33.1 |
| 2006 | 54 | 10.6 | 25.4 | -14.8 |
| 2007 | 52 | 101.9 | 21.5 | +80.4 |
| 2008 | 51 | 22.0 | 16.3 | +5.8 |
| 2009 | 49 | 18.4 | 19.3 | -0.9 |
| Total | 520 | 395 | – | +194.1 |
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.