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Brian Barber

Phillies

2020–present · 5 drafts · 81 picks

Early-Round Selection
-15.4
#141 of 172
rds 1–10, cost-ctrl
Late-Round Value
-7.7
#100 of 172
rds 11+, total career
Total DVOS
-57.8
#150 of 172
-11.56/draft
Hitter DVOS
-5.6
#138 of 172
reliable skill (+0.54)
Career fWAR drafted
5
#151 of 172

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

PosPicksfWARDVOS
IF12 +1.8
OF2-0 -7.4
P73 -14.5

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

YrOvrPlayerPosfWARExpDVOS
2022152Orion KerkeringP 2.70.8 +1.9
2021355TJ Rumfield1B 2.10.3 +1.8
202015Mick AbelP 0.65.8 -5.1
202217Justin CrawfordOF 0.06.0 -5.9
2022122Alex McFarlaneP 0.01.0 -1.0

By draft class

YearPicksfWARExpectedDVOS
202040.6 8.7-8.1
2021202.1 18.8-16.7
2022192.3 14.1-11.8
202318-0.2 9.2-9.4
2024200.0 11.8-11.8
Total81 5 -57.8

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.