Scott Pleis — Scouting Director

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

Pos	Picks	fWAR	DVOS
C	2	8	+4.1
OF	9	17	-5.7
P	46	70	-6.5
IF	10	13	-24.7

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
2018	255	Tarik Skubal	P	21.9	0.5	+21.4
2019	5	Riley Greene	OF	12.8	9.0	+3.8
2020	38	Dillon Dingler	C	8.9	2.9	+6.0
2018	1	Casey Mize	P	7.6	23.5	-15.9
2013	336	Chad Green	P	7.1	0.3	+6.8
2014	63	Spencer Turnbull	P	6.5	1.8	+4.7
2019	562	Kerry Carpenter	DH	5.8	0.2	+5.5
2017	365	Will Vest	P	5.0	0.3	+4.7
2013	39	Corey Knebel	P	4.6	2.9	+1.8
2020	132	Colt Keith	2B	4.1	0.8	+3.2
2018	44	Parker Meadows	OF	3.5	2.4	+1.2
2015	65	Tyler Alexander	P	3.4	1.8	+1.6
2016	445	John Schreiber	P	3.1	0.2	+2.9
2013	816	Joe Mantiply	P	2.8	0.1	+2.7
2020	1	Spencer Torkelson	1B	2.8	23.5	-20.8

By draft class

Year	Picks	fWAR	Expected	DVOS
2013	41	15.6	19.9	-4.3
2014	40	7.8	16.1	-8.3
2015	41	1.4	18.9	-17.5
2016	38	4.7	16.5	-11.8
2017	40	6.5	17.1	-10.6
2018	40	35.0	36.5	-1.5
2019	40	18.6	21.0	-2.4
2020	6	14.9	32.0	-17.1
2021	21	2.6	26.2	-23.6
2022	19	0.7	17.2	-16.5
Total	326	108	–	-113.5

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.