Athletics
2002–present · 23 drafts · 883 picks
| Pos | Picks | fWAR | DVOS |
|---|---|---|---|
| P | 65 | 153 | +85.7 |
| IF | 40 | 165 | +71.8 |
| C | 15 | 34 | +13.3 |
| OF | 25 | 32 | -2.1 |
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.
| Yr | Ovr | Player | Pos | fWAR | Exp | DVOS |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 18 | Sonny Gray | P | 38.7 | 5.9 | +32.8 |
| 2014 | 25 | Matt Chapman | 3B | 35.7 | 4.9 | +30.7 |
| 2012 | 47 | Matt Olson | 1B | 33.7 | 2.3 | +31.3 |
| 2012 | 169 | Max Muncy | 1B | 25.0 | 0.8 | +24.2 |
| 2002 | 16 | Nick Swisher | 1B | 25.0 | 5.7 | +19.3 |
| 2003 | 62 | Andre Ethier | OF | 24.4 | 1.8 | +22.6 |
| 2002 | 24 | Joe Blanton | P | 20.1 | 4.9 | +15.1 |
| 2016 | 83 | Sean Murphy | C | 18.1 | 1.0 | +17.0 |
| 2008 | 58 | Tyson Ross | P | 12.2 | 1.8 | +10.4 |
| 2012 | 11 | Addison Russell | SS | 11.7 | 7.8 | +3.9 |
| 2007 | 41 | Sean Doolittle | P | 11.4 | 2.3 | +9.1 |
| 2004 | 40 | Huston Street | P | 10.6 | 2.8 | +7.7 |
| 2006 | 66 | Trevor Cahill | P | 10.2 | 1.9 | +8.3 |
| 2011 | 226 | Blake Treinen | P | 9.6 | 0.5 | +9.1 |
| 2004 | 727 | Dallas Braden | P | 8.1 | 0.1 | +8.0 |
| Year | Picks | fWAR | Expected | DVOS |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2002 | 51 | 50.9 | 34.9 | +16.0 |
| 2003 | 42 | 23.0 | 21.0 | +2.0 |
| 2004 | 44 | 26.6 | 26.2 | +0.4 |
| 2005 | 40 | 9.4 | 20.0 | -10.6 |
| 2006 | 40 | 14.3 | 11.2 | +3.2 |
| 2007 | 53 | 10.9 | 18.4 | -7.5 |
| 2008 | 49 | 12.8 | 11.6 | +1.2 |
| 2009 | 49 | 8.6 | 17.6 | -9.0 |
| 2010 | 50 | 0.7 | 19.4 | -18.7 |
| 2011 | 49 | 48.2 | 15.1 | +33.1 |
| 2012 | 43 | 75.2 | 25.3 | +49.9 |
| 2013 | 42 | 5.9 | 18.3 | -12.4 |
| 2014 | 40 | 34.7 | 15.4 | +19.3 |
| 2015 | 40 | 0.2 | 16.9 | -16.7 |
| 2016 | 41 | 22.5 | 27.4 | -4.9 |
| 2017 | 41 | 0.1 | 27.4 | -27.3 |
| 2018 | 41 | 7.9 | 21.6 | -13.7 |
| 2019 | 40 | 1.4 | 12.7 | -11.3 |
| 2020 | 5 | 3.5 | 6.9 | -3.4 |
| 2021 | 20 | 12.4 | 14.8 | -2.4 |
| 2022 | 21 | 2.5 | 17.6 | -15.1 |
| 2023 | 21 | 4.7 | 27.1 | -22.5 |
| 2024 | 21 | 7.3 | 24.4 | -17.1 |
| Total | 883 | 384 | – | -67.5 |
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.