Tony Demacio — Scouting Director

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

Pos	Picks	fWAR	DVOS
IF	18	85	+67.1
P	40	58	+20.4
C	4	17	+14.5
OF	11	31	+7.4

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
1999	50	Brian Roberts	2B	29.6	2.3	+27.3
2003	7	Nick Markakis	OF	28.8	9.2	+19.6
2010	70	Andrelton Simmons	SS	25.5	1.9	+23.6
1999	187	Erik Bedard	P	23.5	0.8	+22.7
2012	85	Alex Wood	P	17.1	1.0	+16.1
2011	85	Nick Ahmed	SS	13.3	1.0	+12.3
2010	704	Evan Gattis	C	9.6	0.1	+9.5
2013	65	Victor Caratini	C	6.3	1.8	+4.5
2001	143	Jim Johnson	P	6.0	0.8	+5.2
2002	166	John Maine	P	5.3	0.8	+4.5
2010	404	Brandon Drury	2B	5.3	0.2	+5.0
2001	19	Mike Fontenot	2B	4.9	5.9	-1.0
2011	266	Tommy La Stella	2B	4.6	0.5	+4.1
1999	727	Willie Harris	2B	3.5	0.1	+3.5
2004	109	Brad Bergesen	P	2.7	1.0	+1.6

By draft class

Year	Picks	fWAR	Expected	DVOS
1999	53	58.4	39.0	+19.3
2000	43	0.3	19.3	-18.9
2001	50	13.1	28.0	-14.9
2002	50	4.9	23.7	-18.9
2003	50	28.5	22.6	+5.9
2004	49	3.7	20.2	-16.5
2010	51	39.6	15.7	+23.9
2011	50	17.3	12.4	+4.8
2012	40	19.1	14.6	+4.5
2013	40	5.6	13.3	-7.6
2014	40	1.3	13.4	-12.0
Total	516	192	–	-30.4

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.