Nick Hostetler

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

Pos	Picks	fWAR	DVOS
P	15	35	+8.1
OF	2	3	+2.1
C	1	2	+2.0
IF	3	18	+0.9

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
2014	3	Carlos Rodón	P	23.4	11.0	+12.4
2013	17	Tim Anderson	SS	17.7	5.9	+11.8
2014	558	Aaron Bummer	P	4.9	0.2	+4.7
2013	573	Adam Engel	OF	3.9	0.2	+3.7
2014	528	Tanner Banks	P	2.6	0.2	+2.4
2015	352	Seby Zavala	C	2.3	0.3	+2.0
2014	1038	Jared Koenig	P	1.7	0.1	+1.6
2014	138	Zach Thompson	P	1.6	0.8	+0.7
2014	77	Jace Fry	P	1.2	1.9	-0.7
2019	1070	Declan Cronin	P	1.0	0.1	+0.9
2019	3	Andrew Vaughn	1B	0.5	11.0	-10.5
2019	530	Sammy Peralta	P	0.1	0.2	-0.1

Year	Picks	fWAR	Expected	DVOS
2013	40	19.9	16.9	+3.0
2014	40	35.4	23.9	+11.5
2015	38	1.5	17.7	-16.2
2019	40	1.5	23.0	-21.6
Total	158	58	–	-23.2

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