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2009–2016 · 8 drafts · 354 picks
| Pos | Picks | fWAR | DVOS |
|---|---|---|---|
| P | 33 | 70 | +36.6 |
| IF | 9 | 48 | +25.2 |
| OF | 14 | 27 | +11.3 |
| C | 6 | 16 | -11.6 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | 82 | Kyle Seager | 3B | 34.1 | 1.1 | +33.1 |
| 2010 | 132 | James Paxton | P | 19.2 | 0.8 | +18.3 |
| 2012 | 3 | Mike Zunino | C | 17.4 | 11.2 | +6.2 |
| 2012 | 161 | Chris Taylor | OF | 17.2 | 0.8 | +16.4 |
| 2012 | 98 | Edwin Díaz | P | 15.1 | 1.1 | +14.0 |
| 2010 | 43 | Taijuan Walker | P | 12.3 | 2.4 | +9.9 |
| 2013 | 85 | Tyler O'Neill | OF | 11.7 | 1.1 | +10.6 |
| 2011 | 62 | Brad Miller | SS | 7.2 | 1.8 | +5.4 |
| 2014 | 111 | Ryan Yarbrough | P | 7.1 | 1.0 | +6.1 |
| 2009 | 2 | Dustin Ackley | 2B | 6.8 | 14.3 | -7.5 |
| 2013 | 297 | Emilio Pagán | P | 4.5 | 0.5 | +4.0 |
| 2013 | 327 | Zack Littell | P | 3.8 | 0.3 | +3.6 |
| 2016 | 11 | Kyle Lewis | OF | 2.5 | 8.0 | -5.5 |
| 2011 | 243 | Carson Smith | P | 2.5 | 0.5 | +2.0 |
| 2013 | 507 | Paul Fry | P | 1.9 | 0.2 | +1.7 |
| Year | Picks | fWAR | Expected | DVOS |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | 52 | 39.1 | 31.5 | +7.6 |
| 2010 | 50 | 29.4 | 13.7 | +15.8 |
| 2011 | 51 | 10.8 | 27.1 | -16.3 |
| 2012 | 41 | 50.2 | 22.8 | +27.3 |
| 2013 | 40 | 22.3 | 20.1 | +2.2 |
| 2014 | 40 | 7.2 | 25.3 | -18.0 |
| 2015 | 40 | -0.5 | 13.1 | -13.6 |
| 2016 | 40 | 2.2 | 20.1 | -17.9 |
| Total | 354 | 161 | – | -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.