Dana Brown — Scouting Director

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

Pos	Picks	fWAR	DVOS
IF	17	63	+35.4
P	51	138	+35.0
OF	9	36	+23.8
C	6	24	+12.9

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
2005	4	Ryan Zimmerman	1B	39.5	10.4	+29.1
2009	1	Stephen Strasburg	P	37.7	23.5	+14.2
2007	67	Jordan Zimmermann	P	26.1	1.9	+24.2
2004	84	Ian Desmond	SS	18.3	1.1	+17.2
2019	98	Michael Harris II	OF	15.0	1.1	+14.0
2005	174	Marco Estrada	P	11.7	0.8	+10.9
2020	126	Spencer Strider	P	11.2	1.0	+10.2
2009	172	Michael A. Taylor	OF	10.2	0.8	+9.4
2007	130	Derek Norris	C	9.9	1.0	+8.9
2019	9	Shea Langeliers	C	9.4	7.9	+1.6
2005	354	Craig Stammen	P	8.9	0.3	+8.6
2008	87	Danny Espinosa	2B	7.9	1.1	+6.9
2008	301	Tommy Milone	P	7.2	0.3	+6.9
2007	100	Steven Souza Jr.	OF	5.6	1.1	+4.5
2022	96	Drake Baldwin	C	5.4	1.1	+4.4

By draft class

Year	Picks	fWAR	Expected	DVOS
2002	50	2.0	22.5	-20.5
2003	50	2.0	18.0	-16.1
2004	50	18.4	20.0	-1.6
2005	48	68.5	19.6	+48.9
2006	52	3.6	24.3	-20.7
2007	53	43.6	31.7	+12.0
2008	50	12.4	19.5	-7.1
2009	51	56.2	44.0	+12.2
2019	41	24.3	23.9	+0.3
2020	4	16.3	7.9	+8.4
2021	20	8.9	14.9	-6.1
2022	22	5.0	20.7	-15.7
Total	491	261	–	-5.8

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.