Kip Fagg — Scouting Director

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

Pos	Picks	fWAR	DVOS
P	68	94	+10.2
C	4	11	+8.2
IF	16	21	-7.6
OF	14	18	-7.9

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
2011	264	Kyle Hendricks	P	26.2	0.5	+25.8
2012	39	Joey Gallo	OF	13.2	2.9	+10.3
2011	564	Nick Martinez	P	9.6	0.2	+9.4
2016	30	Cole Ragans	P	9.1	2.2	+6.9
2023	4	Wyatt Langford	OF	9.1	10.4	-1.3
2013	130	Isiah Kiner-Falefa	SS	8.3	1.0	+7.2
2014	186	Jose Trevino	C	8.1	0.8	+7.3
2015	198	Dylan Moore	2B	7.8	0.8	+7.0
2019	8	Josh Jung	3B	7.5	9.2	-1.8
2015	888	Jeffrey Springs	P	5.9	0.1	+5.9
2015	258	Pete Fairbanks	P	5.4	0.5	+5.0
2011	474	Jerad Eickhoff	P	5.0	0.2	+4.7
2012	396	Keone Kela	P	4.0	0.3	+3.7
2020	50	Evan Carter	OF	3.9	2.4	+1.5
2010	826	Alex Claudio	P	3.2	0.1	+3.1

By draft class

Year	Picks	fWAR	Expected	DVOS
2010	53	4.0	26.7	-22.7
2011	51	42.9	16.0	+26.9
2012	43	13.8	17.3	-3.5
2013	40	6.4	18.2	-11.9
2014	40	12.4	13.3	-0.9
2015	40	20.3	23.3	-3.0
2016	40	10.5	13.3	-2.9
2017	41	2.8	15.1	-12.3
2018	40	0.6	17.3	-16.7
2019	41	10.6	23.6	-13.0
2020	5	4.1	11.1	-6.9
2021	20	4.7	26.4	-21.8
2022	18	1.8	18.6	-16.8
2023	18	9.1	17.9	-8.8
2024	20	0.0	11.6	-11.6
Total	510	144	–	-125.8

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.