Tommy Tanous — Scouting Director

Early-Round Selection

-7.1

#103 of 172

rds 1–10, cost-ctrl

Late-Round Value

+0.0

#51 of 172

rds 11+, total career

Total DVOS

-13.6

#88 of 172

-13.58/draft

Hitter DVOS

-8.9

#151 of 172

reliable skill (+0.54)

Career fWAR drafted

#146 of 172

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

Pos	Picks	fWAR	DVOS
P	8	5	+2.6
C	2	4	+1.0
OF	1	0	-0.1
IF	3	-0	-9.8

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
2012	320	Paul Sewald	P	3.9	0.3	+3.6
2012	440	Chris Flexen	P	3.0	0.2	+2.7
2012	35	Kevin Plawecki	C	2.8	2.8	-0.0
2012	260	Tomás Nido	C	1.5	0.5	+1.0
2012	410	Matt Bowman	P	1.2	0.2	+0.9
2012	71	Matt Reynolds	3B	0.3	1.9	-1.6

By draft class

Year	Picks	fWAR	Expected	DVOS
2012	42	9.5	23.1	-13.6
Total	42	10	–	-13.6

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.