Tom McNamara — Scouting Director

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

Pos	Picks	fWAR	DVOS
P	33	69	+36.4
IF	9	47	+24.9
OF	14	26	+10.5
C	6	16	-11.2

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
2009	82	Kyle Seager	3B	34.1	1.0	+33.1
2010	132	James Paxton	P	19.2	0.8	+18.3
2012	3	Mike Zunino	C	17.4	11.0	+6.4
2012	161	Chris Taylor	OF	17.2	0.8	+16.4
2012	98	Edwin Díaz	P	15.3	1.0	+14.3
2010	43	Taijuan Walker	P	12.2	2.3	+9.8
2013	85	Tyler O'Neill	OF	10.6	1.0	+9.5
2011	62	Brad Miller	SS	7.2	1.8	+5.5
2014	111	Ryan Yarbrough	P	6.9	1.0	+5.9
2009	2	Dustin Ackley	2B	6.8	14.1	-7.3
2013	327	Zack Littell	P	4.2	0.3	+3.9
2013	297	Emilio Pagán	P	4.1	0.5	+3.7
2016	11	Kyle Lewis	OF	2.5	7.8	-5.3
2011	243	Carson Smith	P	2.5	0.5	+2.0
2013	507	Paul Fry	P	1.9	0.2	+1.7

By draft class

Year	Picks	fWAR	Expected	DVOS
2009	52	39.1	31.0	+8.1
2010	50	29.3	13.5	+15.8
2011	51	10.8	26.7	-15.9
2012	41	50.3	22.5	+27.9
2013	40	21.2	19.7	+1.5
2014	40	7.0	25.0	-18.0
2015	40	-0.5	12.9	-13.3
2016	40	0.8	19.7	-18.9
Total	354	158	–	-12.9

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.