Mike Arbuckle — Scouting Director

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

Pos	Picks	fWAR	DVOS
IF	9	200	+184.2
P	26	82	+37.9
OF	8	49	+2.0
C	2	2	+1.9

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
1993	46	Scott Rolen	3B	69.9	2.4	+67.5
2000	15	Chase Utley	2B	61.5	5.8	+55.7
1996	46	Jimmy Rollins	SS	49.7	2.4	+47.3
1997	54	Randy Wolf	P	29.9	1.8	+28.0
1999	306	Marlon Byrd	OF	22.1	0.3	+21.8
1998	1	Pat Burrell	OF	19.0	23.5	-4.5
1999	12	Brett Myers	P	17.3	7.9	+9.4
1998	614	Nick Punto	2B	15.1	0.1	+15.1
1996	11	Adam Eaton	P	12.7	7.9	+4.8
1998	254	Ryan Madson	P	12.2	0.5	+11.7
1998	104	Jason Michaels	OF	9.1	1.0	+8.1
1995	42	Marlon Anderson	2B	5.8	2.4	+3.4
2000	175	Taylor Buchholz	P	3.1	0.8	+2.4
1997	506	Johnny Estrada	C	2.4	0.2	+2.2
1995	30	David Coggin	P	1.9	2.2	-0.3

By draft class

Year	Picks	fWAR	Expected	DVOS
1993	42	72.4	24.2	+48.2
1994	53	-1.0	17.5	-18.4
1995	54	8.0	22.6	-14.6
1996	50	62.3	21.4	+40.9
1997	44	33.6	25.9	+7.8
1998	44	55.7	39.0	+16.7
1999	44	39.2	19.2	+19.9
2000	38	63.7	15.4	+48.3
Total	369	334	–	+148.7

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.