Pirates
2012–present · 13 drafts · 420 picks
| Pos | Picks | fWAR | DVOS |
|---|---|---|---|
| OF | 9 | 3 | -10.8 |
| IF | 19 | 36 | -21.3 |
| C | 7 | 9 | -23.9 |
| P | 45 | 51 | -26.9 |
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.
| Yr | Ovr | Player | Pos | fWAR | Exp | DVOS |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 64 | Mitch Keller | P | 13.4 | 1.8 | +11.6 |
| 2023 | 1 | Paul Skenes | P | 13.0 | 23.4 | -10.4 |
| 2013 | 179 | Adam Frazier | 2B | 11.2 | 0.8 | +10.5 |
| 2015 | 32 | Ke'Bryan Hayes | 3B | 10.7 | 2.8 | +7.9 |
| 2013 | 9 | Austin Meadows | DH | 6.1 | 7.8 | -1.8 |
| 2013 | 14 | Reese McGuire | C | 4.9 | 5.7 | -0.8 |
| 2012 | 226 | Jacob Stallings | C | 4.5 | 0.5 | +4.0 |
| 2017 | 12 | Shane Baz | P | 4.4 | 7.8 | -3.4 |
| 2018 | 51 | Braxton Ashcraft | P | 3.7 | 1.8 | +1.9 |
| 2020 | 31 | Carmen Mlodzinski | P | 3.6 | 2.8 | +0.8 |
| 2020 | 7 | Nick Gonzales | 2B | 3.5 | 9.2 | -5.7 |
| 2014 | 100 | Jordan Luplow | OF | 3.5 | 1.0 | +2.5 |
| 2015 | 187 | JT Brubaker | P | 3.3 | 0.8 | +2.5 |
| 2013 | 269 | Chad Kuhl | P | 3.3 | 0.5 | +2.8 |
| 2019 | 72 | Jared Triolo | 3B | 3.1 | 1.9 | +1.2 |
| Year | Picks | fWAR | Expected | DVOS |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 40 | 5.7 | 21.8 | -16.2 |
| 2013 | 41 | 28.0 | 24.9 | +3.0 |
| 2014 | 42 | 16.3 | 20.1 | -3.8 |
| 2015 | 41 | 14.9 | 19.7 | -4.8 |
| 2016 | 41 | -2.0 | 17.8 | -19.9 |
| 2017 | 42 | 4.8 | 24.0 | -19.2 |
| 2018 | 41 | 4.3 | 22.0 | -17.7 |
| 2019 | 42 | 4.5 | 21.6 | -17.1 |
| 2020 | 6 | 9.0 | 18.1 | -9.1 |
| 2021 | 21 | -0.3 | 37.3 | -37.7 |
| 2022 | 21 | -0.7 | 24.0 | -24.7 |
| 2023 | 21 | 13.1 | 36.9 | -23.9 |
| 2024 | 21 | 1.1 | 21.4 | -20.3 |
| Total | 420 | 98 | – | -211.3 |
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.