Wayne Britton — Scouting Director

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

Pos	Picks	fWAR	DVOS
IF	19	115	+91.7
P	39	74	+43.8
OF	10	28	+15.8
C	7	6	+1.0

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.

Top picks — who drove the value

Yr	Ovr	Player	Pos	fWAR	Exp	DVOS
1994	12	Nomar Garciaparra	SS	41.4	7.8	+33.6
2001	243	Kevin Youkilis	1B	30.2	0.5	+29.7
1994	355	Carl Pavano	P	23.9	0.3	+23.6
1993	7	Trot Nixon	OF	22.4	9.1	+13.2
1993	49	Jeff Suppan	P	22.1	2.3	+19.7
1997	581	David Eckstein	SS	16.7	0.2	+16.5
2000	332	Freddy Sanchez	2B	15.6	0.3	+15.4
1998	12	Adam Everett	SS	9.6	7.8	+1.8
1998	85	Mike Maroth	P	6.6	1.0	+5.5
2001	48	Kelly Shoppach	C	6.2	2.3	+3.9
1996	241	Justin Duchscherer	P	6.0	0.5	+5.5
1999	379	Lew Ford	OF	5.9	0.3	+5.6
1999	48	Casey Fossum	P	4.7	2.3	+2.4
1996	34	Chris Reitsma	P	4.7	2.8	+1.8
1996	301	Shea Hillenbrand	1B	3.0	0.3	+2.8

By draft class

Year	Picks	fWAR	Expected	DVOS
1993	50	47.0	23.1	+23.9
1994	46	62.1	19.4	+42.7
1995	46	2.8	24.6	-21.8
1996	45	14.2	19.0	-4.7
1997	47	16.4	21.3	-4.8
1998	47	16.2	17.8	-1.6
1999	53	10.5	23.2	-12.7
2000	46	16.8	16.2	+0.5
2001	47	36.4	13.7	+22.7
Total	427	222	–	+44.1

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.