Cubs, Rays, Blue Jays
1996–1997, 2000, 2005–2012 · 11 drafts · 563 picks
| Pos | Picks | fWAR | DVOS |
|---|---|---|---|
| IF | 22 | 196 | +155.9 |
| P | 47 | 81 | +40.3 |
| OF | 11 | 38 | +2.3 |
| C | 3 | -1 | -2.0 |
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 | 48 | Josh Donaldson | 3B | 46.4 | 2.3 | +44.0 |
| 2009 | 79 | DJ LeMahieu | 2B | 27.2 | 1.9 | +25.3 |
| 1997 | 149 | Michael Young | SS | 25.3 | 0.8 | +24.4 |
| 1997 | 5 | Vernon Wells | OF | 25.0 | 8.9 | +16.0 |
| 2011 | 9 | Javier Báez | SS | 25.0 | 7.8 | +17.2 |
| 1996 | 189 | Casey Blake | 3B | 22.2 | 0.8 | +21.4 |
| 1997 | 1280 | Orlando Hudson | 2B | 21.0 | 0.1 | +21.0 |
| 2006 | 149 | Jeff Samardzija | P | 19.5 | 0.8 | +18.7 |
| 2008 | 191 | Josh Harrison | 2B | 14.2 | 0.8 | +13.5 |
| 1997 | 599 | Mark Hendrickson | P | 11.8 | 0.2 | +11.5 |
| 2008 | 19 | Andrew Cashner | P | 11.4 | 5.9 | +5.5 |
| 2005 | 118 | Jeremy Hellickson | P | 11.1 | 1.0 | +10.1 |
| 2007 | 157 | Brandon Guyer | OF | 5.9 | 0.8 | +5.0 |
| 2007 | 127 | Darwin Barney | 2B | 5.3 | 1.0 | +4.3 |
| 2009 | 770 | Justin Bour | 1B | 4.2 | 0.1 | +4.1 |
| Year | Picks | fWAR | Expected | DVOS |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1996 | 55 | 28.8 | 34.8 | -6.0 |
| 1997 | 66 | 83.0 | 20.1 | +63.0 |
| 2000 | 52 | 4.6 | 23.0 | -18.4 |
| 2005 | 50 | 11.1 | 21.1 | -10.0 |
| 2006 | 47 | 23.3 | 15.9 | +7.4 |
| 2007 | 50 | 56.3 | 23.2 | +33.2 |
| 2008 | 51 | 26.8 | 19.3 | +7.5 |
| 2009 | 50 | 38.7 | 13.9 | +24.8 |
| 2010 | 50 | 0.5 | 17.3 | -16.8 |
| 2011 | 50 | 26.9 | 19.5 | +7.4 |
| 2012 | 42 | 13.6 | 27.3 | -13.7 |
| Total | 563 | 314 | – | +78.3 |
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.