Roy Clark — Scouting Director

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

Pos	Picks	fWAR	DVOS
P	50	160	+107.8
IF	15	120	+106.1
C	5	77	+71.2
OF	9	40	+27.1

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
2007	78	Freddie Freeman	1B	67.5	1.9	+65.6
2000	29	Adam Wainwright	P	52.6	2.2	+50.3
2002	64	Brian McCann	C	52.2	1.8	+50.3
2007	14	Jason Heyward	OF	34.8	5.8	+29.1
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	21.5	1.0	+20.4
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	9.2	+8.5
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	5.0	+0.6

By draft class

Year	Picks	fWAR	Expected	DVOS
2000	55	86.1	24.7	+61.4
2001	53	4.2	23.0	-18.8
2002	52	86.1	21.3	+64.8
2003	53	15.1	21.7	-6.7
2004	49	-0.0	11.2	-11.2
2005	52	50.7	17.6	+33.0
2006	54	10.6	25.6	-15.1
2007	52	103.7	21.7	+82.0
2008	51	22.1	16.4	+5.7
2009	49	18.4	19.5	-1.1
Total	520	397	–	+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.