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This list uses my Hall-of-Fame Metric, which I explained in detail in an earlier post: introducing-my-hall-of-fame-metric.html .In addition, I've gone through and calculated "hypothetical" Silver Slugger winning second basemen prior to 1980 in order to more accurately determine the list. The method to my madness for these calculations will be attached at the end for you guys to see. For Second Basemen, our Hall of Fame line is approximately 1023 points, with three player exceptions due to their era. Current Hall of Famers will be highlighted in gold, with snubs and future Hall of Famers highlighted in green. Current players are italicized.
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That concludes our Top 25. The rest of the list includes: 26. Bret Boone, 991.317 points (ironically his father was also 26th on the catchers list) 27. Tony Lazzeri, 860.936 points (about 980 points adjusting for his 4 hypothetical Silver Sluggers, low points due to era) 28. Buddy Myer, 910.451 points (about 970 points with 2 Silver Sluggers) 29. Brandon Phillips, 949.123 points 30. Willie Randolph, 914.739 points (about 944 points with 1 Silver Slugger, also ranks 4th in walks) 31. Pete Runnels, 841.052 points (about 931 points with 3 Silver Sluggers) 32. Placido Polanco, 926.269 points 33. Chuck Knoblauch, 925.774 points 34. Ian Kinsler, 906.012 points 35. Luis Castillo, 896.139 points 36. Davey Lopes, 845.201 points (about 875 points with 1 Silver Slugger, also 3rd in stolen bases) 37. Jim Gilliam, 790.997 points ( about 850 points with 2 Silver Sluggers) 38. Ray Durham, 850.435 points 39. Bobby Richardson, 843.489 points (only 2nd baseman to be World Series MVP) 40. Tony Phillips, 842.928 points (ranks 3rd in walks) 41. Johnny Evers, 779.929 points (about 839 points with 2 Silver Sluggers, low points due to era) 42. Davey Johnson, 768.543 points (about 828 points with 2 Silver Sluggers) 43. Del Pratt, 793.254 points (about 823 points with 1 Silver Slugger) 44. Steve Sax, 802.941 points (ranks 5th in stolen bases) 45. Orlando Hudson, 789.795 points 46. Johnny Temple, 719.924 points (about 779 points with 2 Silver Sluggers) 47. Max Bishop, 717.431 points (about 777 points with 2 Silver Sluggers, ranks 3rd in on-base percentage) 48. Miller Huggins, 684.075 points (about 774 points with 3 Silver Sluggers, low points due to era) 49. Dick McAuliffe, 742.057 points (about 772 points with 1 Silver Slugger) 50. Mark Grudzielanek, 771.756 points 51. Bobby Avila, 707.385 points (about 767 points with 2 Silver Sluggers) 52. Tony Taylor, 734.638 points (about 764 points with 1 Silver Slugger) 53. Claude Ritchey, 679.394 points (about 739 points with 2 Silver Sluggers) 54. Glenn Beckert, 677.044 points (about 737 points with 2 Silver Sluggers) 55. Dan Uggla, 726.088 points 56. Jerry Lumpe, 617.343 points (about 707 points with 3 Silver Sluggers) 57. Eddie Stanky, 704.908 points (ranks 4th in on-base percentage) 58. Dave Cash, 676.175 points And there's our list. As always, credit to the Wikipedia and Baseball-Reference pages for each player, as well as the Baseball-Reference Standard Batting AL and NL pages from 1896 to 1979, for providing the data necessary to make this post. The full process of my calculations can be seen in the attached spreadsheet below, and the process of my picking hypothetical Silver Slugger winners can be seen attached below as well. Thanks for reading!
I would also like to give an honorable mention to Hall of Famer Rod Carew (he converted). Carew spent roughly half of his games at 2nd, and would easily be near the top of this list. However, since he played more games at 1st base, I will be including him on that list.
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