Julian Mock — Scouting Director

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

Pos	Picks	fWAR	DVOS
P	25	37	+15.8
C	3	26	+15.6
IF	11	13	-4.2
OF	11	-0	-18.6

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
1995	54	Brett Tomko	P	16.4	1.8	+14.5
1990	7	Dan Wilson	C	14.3	9.2	+5.0
1994	72	Aaron Boone	3B	10.0	1.9	+8.1
1995	139	Jason LaRue	C	9.3	0.8	+8.5
1997	278	Scott Williamson	P	7.5	0.5	+7.1
1991	20	Pokey Reese	2B	6.6	6.0	+0.6
1993	62	Scott Sullivan	P	3.4	1.8	+1.6
1993	148	Paul Bako	C	2.8	0.8	+2.0
1992	633	Chad Fox	P	2.1	0.1	+2.0
1995	223	Ray King	P	1.7	0.5	+1.2
1997	158	Dewayne Wise	OF	1.4	0.8	+0.6
1994	604	John Riedling	P	1.2	0.1	+1.1
1995	447	Lance Davis	P	1.2	0.2	+0.9
1996	38	Buddy Carlyle	P	0.9	2.9	-1.9
1990	210	Larry Luebbers	P	0.9	0.8	+0.1

By draft class

Year	Picks	fWAR	Expected	DVOS
1990	39	15.3	23.2	-7.9
1991	52	7.1	18.6	-11.5
1992	51	0.9	25.2	-24.3
1993	44	5.1	15.8	-10.7
1994	47	11.9	22.1	-10.2
1995	43	28.2	12.0	+16.2
1996	43	0.9	22.2	-21.3
1997	40	6.7	17.0	-10.3
Total	359	76	–	-79.9

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.