Sandy Johnson — Scouting Director

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

Pos	Picks	fWAR	DVOS
P	51	243	+170.3
IF	17	56	+39.1
C	6	34	+25.2
OF	17	24	-7.4

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
1986	4	Kevin Brown	P	76.1	10.4	+65.6
1990	817	Scott Erickson	P	29.8	0.1	+29.7
1985	3	Bobby Witt	P	27.8	11.1	+16.7
1992	678	Rich Aurilia	SS	25.8	0.1	+25.8
1995	66	Ryan Dempster	P	24.6	1.9	+22.7
1985	395	Mike Stanley	C	21.4	0.3	+21.1
1988	63	Darren Oliver	P	21.2	1.8	+19.4
1990	271	Rusty Greer	OF	18.2	0.5	+17.7
1987	830	Robb Nen	P	17.9	0.1	+17.9
1986	319	Rey Sanchez	2B	14.6	0.3	+14.3
1992	22	Rick Helling	P	12.3	5.0	+7.4
1986	59	Dean Palmer	3B	11.0	1.8	+9.2
1994	85	Scott Podsednik	OF	9.4	1.1	+8.4
1987	19	Brian Bohanon	P	9.3	6.0	+3.3
1985	109	Chad Kreuter	C	9.2	1.0	+8.2

By draft class

Year	Picks	fWAR	Expected	DVOS
1985	30	58.1	23.0	+35.1
1986	30	110.6	25.1	+85.5
1987	53	31.1	27.5	+3.6
1988	59	24.5	29.1	-4.6
1989	58	2.5	22.1	-19.6
1990	60	46.6	19.4	+27.2
1991	63	3.1	19.4	-16.4
1992	50	39.2	17.2	+21.9
1993	59	-0.5	15.0	-15.5
1994	38	13.6	11.7	+1.9
1995	47	29.4	24.2	+5.2
Total	547	358	–	+124.3

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.