Billy Gasparino — Scouting Director

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

Pos	Picks	fWAR	DVOS
IF	12	62	+39.8
P	44	61	+21.4
C	4	25	+20.4
OF	13	20	+6.8

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
2014	13	Trea Turner	SS	48.0	7.8	+40.2
2016	32	Will Smith	C	23.5	2.8	+20.7
2015	24	Walker Buehler	P	15.9	4.9	+11.0
2013	13	Hunter Renfroe	OF	9.3	7.8	+1.5
2016	431	Dean Kremer	P	7.7	0.2	+7.5
2019	31	Michael Busch	1B	6.7	2.8	+3.9
2016	281	Tony Gonsolin	P	6.3	0.5	+5.8
2016	20	Gavin Lux	2B	5.7	5.9	-0.2
2016	101	Dustin May	P	5.6	1.0	+4.6
2016	221	Luke Raley	OF	5.4	0.5	+5.0
2016	1001	Zach McKinstry	3B	5.2	0.1	+5.2
2019	102	Ryan Pepiot	P	4.3	1.0	+3.3
2021	192	Emmet Sheehan	P	3.4	0.8	+2.6
2018	224	James Outman	OF	3.3	0.5	+2.8
2021	342	Justin Wrobleski	P	2.9	0.3	+2.6

By draft class

Year	Picks	fWAR	Expected	DVOS
2013	41	11.5	21.6	-10.2
2014	40	47.9	19.2	+28.7
2015	42	15.2	20.2	-5.0
2016	42	61.0	22.0	+39.0
2017	40	-1.2	16.0	-17.2
2018	40	7.9	12.7	-4.9
2019	41	13.8	18.3	-4.5
2020	6	4.1	8.7	-4.6
2021	19	6.9	9.7	-2.8
Total	311	167	–	+18.6

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.