Rosternomics

โ† all scouting directors

Dick Foster

Brewers

1988โ€“1991 ยท 4 drafts ยท 183 picks

Early-Round Selection
-11.6
#128 of 172
rds 1โ€“10, cost-ctrl
Late-Round Value
+13.9
#27 of 172
rds 11+, total career
Total DVOS
-32.8
#119 of 172
-8.20/draft
Hitter DVOS
+30.8
#73 of 172
reliable skill (+0.54)
Career fWAR drafted
50
#105 of 172

Value by position โ€” where the value came from (descriptive)

PosPicksfWARDVOS
IF434 +32.0
C33 +1.6
P814 -0.2
OF2-1 -2.8

Position from each player's primary MLB fielding spot; never-MLB picks excluded. This table is descriptive, not a skill ranking โ€” per-position DVOS isn't reliable at this granularity (split-half โ‰ˆ 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 (โ‰ˆ 0) โ€” so we rank Hitter DVOS and leave pitcher out.

Top picks โ€” who drove the value

YrOvrPlayerPosfWARExpDVOS
1991286Jeff Cirillo3B 33.00.5 +32.5
198917Cal EldredP 12.36.0 +6.2
1991208Mike MathenyC 3.40.8 +2.6
1988133Pat ListachSS 1.50.8 +0.6
19911139Bobby JonesP 1.40.1 +1.4
1988211Mike IgnasiakP 0.40.8 -0.4
1988185Chris GeorgeP 0.20.8 -0.6

By draft class

YearPicksfWARExpectedDVOS
1988421.8 17.7-16.0
19894912.3 24.9-12.7
199043-1.7 12.9-14.6
19914937.8 27.4+10.4
Total183 50โ€“ -32.8

DVOS = ฮฃ (a pick's career fWAR โˆ’ 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 โ€” see the coverage note on the leaderboard. Single drafts are noise-dominated โ€” one star swamps a class โ€” so read the multi-year totals, not any one year. Full method on the DVOS page.