Rosternomics

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Scott Pleis

Tigers

2013–2022 · 10 drafts · 326 picks

Early-Round Selection
-20.1
#161 of 172
rds 1–10, cost-ctrl
Late-Round Value
-7.9
#103 of 172
rds 11+, total career
Total DVOS
-121.4
#170 of 172
-12.14/draft
Hitter DVOS
-29.2
#171 of 172
reliable skill (+0.54)
Career fWAR drafted
98
#72 of 172

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

PosPicksfWARDVOS
C25 +0.9
OF716 -5.0
P4665 -10.3
IF1012 -25.1

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

YrOvrPlayerPosfWARExpDVOS
2018255Tarik SkubalP 20.80.5 +20.3
20195Riley GreeneOF 12.08.9 +3.0
2013336Chad GreenP 7.10.3 +6.8
201463Spencer TurnbullP 6.51.8 +4.7
2019562Kerry CarpenterDH 6.10.2 +5.8
20181Casey MizeP 6.123.3 -17.2
202038Dillon DinglerC 5.62.8 +2.8
2017365Will VestP 4.80.3 +4.5
201339Corey KnebelP 4.62.8 +1.8
201844Parker MeadowsOF 3.52.3 +1.2
2020132Colt Keith2B 3.40.8 +2.6
2016445John SchreiberP 3.10.2 +2.9
20201Spencer Torkelson1B 2.923.3 -20.4
201565Tyler AlexanderP 2.81.8 +1.0
2013816Joe MantiplyP 2.80.1 +2.7

By draft class

YearPicksfWARExpectedDVOS
20134115.6 19.7-4.1
2014407.0 15.9-8.9
2015410.9 18.7-17.8
2016384.7 16.3-11.6
2017406.3 16.9-10.6
20184031.4 36.1-4.7
20194018.3 20.8-2.6
2020611.5 31.6-20.1
2021212.0 25.9-23.9
202219-0.1 17.0-17.1
Total326 98 -121.4

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.