R J Harrison — Scouting Director

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

Pos	Picks	fWAR	DVOS
P	45	126	+77.4
IF	13	96	+48.8
OF	10	42	+33.0
C	7	4	-3.0

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
2006	3	Evan Longoria	3B	55.2	11.0	+44.2
2007	1	David Price	P	42.5	23.4	+19.1
2010	941	Kevin Kiermaier	OF	26.6	0.1	+26.5
2011	52	Blake Snell	P	26.5	1.8	+24.8
2006	109	Alex Cobb	P	19.5	1.0	+18.5
2015	87	Brandon Lowe	2B	19.0	1.0	+18.0
2015	208	Jake Cronenworth	1B	14.8	0.8	+14.0
2010	251	Merrill Kelly	P	13.5	0.5	+13.0
2006	289	Desmond Jennings	OF	12.0	0.5	+11.6
2007	245	Matt Moore	P	8.8	0.5	+8.3
2012	422	Dylan Floro	P	6.4	0.2	+6.2
2010	79	Derek Dietrich	2B	6.1	1.9	+4.2
2007	365	Stephen Vogt	C	3.6	0.3	+3.3
2010	191	Jesse Hahn	P	3.3	0.8	+2.5
2013	29	Ryne Stanek	P	3.0	2.2	+0.8

By draft class

Year	Picks	fWAR	Expected	DVOS
2006	50	86.8	24.4	+62.4
2007	50	55.0	35.0	+20.0
2008	50	3.7	36.7	-33.1
2009	50	0.2	13.3	-13.1
2010	53	49.3	24.1	+25.2
2011	59	25.1	34.5	-9.4
2012	40	11.6	14.2	-2.6
2013	41	2.8	18.1	-15.3
2014	41	0.0	18.8	-18.8
2015	40	34.0	19.2	+14.8
Total	474	268	–	+29.9

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.