Matt Swanson

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

Pos	Picks	fWAR	DVOS
P	17	26	-0.1
IF	5	-0	-9.8
OF	2	-1	-14.9

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
2020	10	Reid Detmers	P	8.6	7.8	+0.8
2018	121	Kyle Bradish	P	7.9	1.0	+6.9
2017	47	Griffin Canning	P	5.2	2.3	+2.8
2018	391	Cooper Criswell	P	1.0	0.3	+0.8
2018	57	Jeremiah Jackson	2B	1.0	1.8	-0.8
2017	565	Isaac Mattson	P	1.0	0.2	+0.7
2021	9	Sam Bachman	P	0.7	7.8	-7.1
2018	181	Austin Warren	P	0.7	0.8	-0.1
2019	211	Davis Daniel	P	0.4	0.8	-0.4
2018	211	Andrew Wantz	P	0.4	0.8	-0.4
2019	92	Jack Kochanowicz	P	0.2	1.0	-0.8
2019	841	Coleman Crow	P	0.2	0.1	+0.1
2021	321	Chase Silseth	P	0.1	0.3	-0.2
2018	601	Kyle Tyler	P	0.0	0.1	-0.0
2019	421	Zac Kristofak	P	0.0	0.2	-0.2

Year	Picks	fWAR	Expected	DVOS
2017	40	4.9	19.8	-14.8
2018	40	10.1	16.9	-6.8
2019	40	0.0	16.7	-16.7
2020	4	8.6	10.7	-2.1
2021	20	0.7	19.5	-18.8
Total	144	24	–	-59.2

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.

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

Top picks — who drove the value

By draft class