Billy Gasparino — Scouting Director

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

Pos	Picks	fWAR	DVOS
IF	12	63	+41.0
P	44	63	+22.9
C	4	25	+20.3
OF	13	20	+6.5

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
2014	13	Trea Turner	SS	48.2	7.9	+40.3
2016	32	Will Smith	C	23.4	2.9	+20.6
2015	24	Walker Buehler	P	15.9	5.0	+10.9
2013	13	Hunter Renfroe	OF	9.3	7.9	+1.4
2016	431	Dean Kremer	P	7.6	0.2	+7.3
2019	31	Michael Busch	1B	6.9	2.9	+4.1
2016	101	Dustin May	P	6.7	1.0	+5.7
2016	281	Tony Gonsolin	P	6.3	0.5	+5.8
2016	1001	Zach McKinstry	3B	5.9	0.1	+5.9
2016	20	Gavin Lux	2B	5.7	6.0	-0.3
2016	221	Luke Raley	OF	4.9	0.5	+4.4
2019	102	Ryan Pepiot	P	4.3	1.0	+3.2
2021	342	Justin Wrobleski	P	3.9	0.3	+3.7
2021	192	Emmet Sheehan	P	3.7	0.8	+2.9
2018	224	James Outman	OF	3.1	0.5	+2.6

By draft class

Year	Picks	fWAR	Expected	DVOS
2013	41	11.8	21.8	-10.0
2014	40	48.1	19.4	+28.8
2015	42	15.1	20.3	-5.2
2016	42	62.1	22.2	+39.9
2017	40	-1.1	16.1	-17.1
2018	40	7.5	12.8	-5.3
2019	41	14.5	18.4	-3.9
2020	6	3.7	8.8	-5.2
2021	19	8.3	9.8	-1.5
Total	311	170	–	+20.3

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.