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1998โ2000 ยท 3 drafts ยท 148 picks
| Pos | Picks | fWAR | DVOS |
|---|---|---|---|
| OF | 2 | 28 | +26.0 |
| IF | 4 | 24 | +22.6 |
| C | 2 | 0 | -2.6 |
| P | 17 | 2 | -35.3 |
Position from each player's primary MLB fielding spot; never-MLB picks excluded. This table is descriptive, not a skill ranking โ per-position DVOS isn't reliable at this granularity (split-half โ 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 (โ 0) โ so we rank Hitter DVOS and leave pitcher out.
| Yr | Ovr | Player | Pos | fWAR | Exp | DVOS |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1999 | 271 | Mark Ellis | 2B | 26.4 | 0.5 | +26.0 |
| 2000 | 104 | David DeJesus | OF | 25.5 | 1.0 | +24.4 |
| 1999 | 25 | Mike MacDougal | P | 2.6 | 5.0 | -2.4 |
| 1998 | 227 | Norris Hopper | OF | 2.1 | 0.5 | +1.6 |
| 1999 | 43 | Jimmy Gobble | P | 1.7 | 2.4 | -0.7 |
| 1999 | 58 | Wes Obermueller | P | 1.1 | 1.8 | -0.7 |
| 1999 | 7 | Kyle Snyder | P | 0.9 | 9.3 | -8.4 |
| 1998 | 31 | Chris George | P | 0.8 | 2.9 | -2.1 |
| 1998 | 257 | Paul Phillips | C | 0.3 | 0.5 | -0.1 |
| 2000 | 134 | Zach McClellan | P | 0.3 | 0.8 | -0.5 |
| 1999 | 661 | Chad Santos | 1B | 0.1 | 0.1 | +0.0 |
| Year | Picks | fWAR | Expected | DVOS |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1998 | 44 | 2.3 | 28.7 | -26.3 |
| 1999 | 54 | 28.3 | 33.1 | -4.8 |
| 2000 | 50 | 23.6 | 24.0 | -0.4 |
| Total | 148 | 54 | โ | -31.5 |
DVOS = ฮฃ (a pick's career fWAR โ 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 โ see the coverage note on the leaderboard. Single drafts are noise-dominated โ one star swamps a class โ so read the multi-year totals, not any one year. Full method on the DVOS page.