Terry Reynolds — Scouting Director

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

Pos	Picks	fWAR	DVOS
C	6	37	+34.0
P	39	68	+29.2
IF	13	29	+9.1
OF	8	19	+2.8

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
1996	688	Ted Lilly	P	24.8	0.1	+24.7
1994	13	Paul Konerko	1B	24.0	7.8	+16.1
1998	216	David Ross	C	21.9	0.8	+21.1
2005	12	Jay Bruce	OF	20.5	7.8	+12.7
2004	7	Homer Bailey	P	17.0	9.1	+7.8
1993	690	Paul Lo Duca	C	16.1	0.1	+16.0
1993	2	Darren Dreifort	P	14.0	14.0	+0.0
2005	60	Travis Wood	P	10.8	1.8	+9.0
1991	80	Todd Hollandsworth	OF	5.2	1.9	+3.3
1996	88	Alex Cora	2B	4.1	1.0	+3.0
2005	1259	John Axford	P	3.2	0.1	+3.2
1995	863	Pedro Feliciano	P	3.2	0.1	+3.1
2005	122	Sam LeCure	P	2.1	1.0	+1.1
2005	362	Adam Rosales	2B	1.8	0.3	+1.5
2004	78	Craig Tatum	C	0.6	1.9	-1.3

By draft class

Year	Picks	fWAR	Expected	DVOS
1991	93	3.0	15.2	-12.2
1992	53	0.2	22.0	-21.8
1993	57	30.0	26.4	+3.6
1994	77	20.9	23.5	-2.5
1995	85	3.1	21.8	-18.7
1996	79	24.0	18.5	+5.5
1997	71	-0.7	18.2	-18.9
1998	50	19.0	16.6	+2.4
2004	50	17.4	22.5	-5.2
2005	50	36.9	19.4	+17.5
Total	665	154	–	-50.2

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.