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To avoid spamming the general blog page with the Player Value posts for each season/team, this blog page will serve as a separate listing of all of the Player Value posts for each season/team. These posts will be less detailed, mainly just listing out the top players each season and including the necessary files.
The 2022 season has concluded, so I have downloaded the player season statistics from Baseball Reference to apply my Player Value metric. You can read about the metric here, as well as its important addendum here. You can also view a more detailed example of Batting Value applied to the 2010 season here. In this post, I will apply Batting Value to the 2022 season to determine which players should win the Silver Sluggers and Hank Aaron Awards. The Silver Slugger is given to the best offensive player in the league at each position, while the Hank Aaron Award is given to the best offensive player in each league overall. Here's a quick reminder of the run value weights for the relevant offensive events: Single: .30 runs Double: .58 runs Triple: .91 runs Home Run: 1.29 runs Unintentional Walk: .22 runs Intentional Walk: .17 runs Hit By Pitch: .24 runs Sacrifice Bunt: -.22 runs Sacrifice Fly: -.10 runs Strikeout: -.34 runs Groundball Double Play: -.75 runs Other Out: -.33 runs SILVER SLUGGERS NL Catcher: J.T. Realmuto, Philadelphia Phillies, 30.55 Batting Value AL Catcher: Adley Rutschman, Baltimore Orioles, 25.27 Batting Value NL First Base: Paul Goldschmidt, St. Louis Cardinals, 45.59 Batting Value AL First Base: Nathaniel Lowe, Texas Rangers, 15.46 Batting Value NL Second Base: Jeff McNeil, New York Mets, 21.46 Batting Value AL Second Base: Jose Altuve, Houston Astros, 39.46 Batting Value NL Third Base: Manny Machado, San Diego Padres, 26.86 Batting Value AL Third Base: Jose Ramirez, Cleveland Guardians, 27.68 Batting Value NL Shortstop: Trea Turner, Los Angeles Dodgers, 20.62 Batting Value AL Shortstop: Xander Bogaerts, Boston Red Sox, 23.11 Batting Value NL Outfield 1: Juan Soto, Washington Nationals & San Diego Padres, 27.87 Batting Value NL Outfield 2: Mookie Betts, Los Angeles Dodgers, 24.86 Batting Value NL Outfield 3: Brandon Nimmo, New York Mets, 22.90 Batting Value AL Outfield 1: Aaron Judge, New York Yankees, 79.26 Batting Value AL Outfield 2: Mike Trout, Los Angeles Angels, 44.55 Batting Value AL Outfield 3: Julio Rodriguez, Seattle Mariners, 25.26 Batting Value NL DH: Bryce Harper, Philadelphia Phillies, 19.05 Batting Value AL DH: Shohei Ohtani, Los Angeles Angels, 59.82 Batting Value Since the universal DH was implemented in 2022, there is no longer a Silver Slugger for NL pitchers, but rather a new Silver Slugger for the NL DH. You can cross-reference these results with FanGraphs' wRAA leaderboard here, Baseball Reference's Rbat here (if you have Stathead), and general Baseball Reference offensive leaderboards here. You can also look at the advanced measurement leaderboards on Baseball Savant here, such as expected wOBA (xwOBA). You'll find pretty strong agreements across all of these. Recall that the outfield Silver Sluggers go to the 3 best offensive outfielders, not the best offensive LF, CF, and RF. The best offensive LF in the NL was Joc Pederson of the San Francisco Giants, with a Batting Value of 15.37. The best offensive LF in the AL was Steven Kwan of the Cleveland Guardians, with a Batting Value of 3.05. The best offensive RF in the AL was Taylor Ward of the Los Angeles Angels, with a Batting Value of 17.41. The best offensive utility player in the NL was Brandon Drury of the Cincinnati Reds & San Diego Padres, with a Batting Value of 12.12.The best offensive utility player in the AL was Matt Carpenter of the New York Yankees, with a Batting Value of 18.45. A utility player was defined as someone who didn't play at least 50% of their games at one specific position. Carpenter was about 13% 1B, 5% 3B, 8% LF, 32% RF, and 42% DH. Drury was about 20% 1B, 18% 2B, 44% 3B, 17% DH, 1% SS, and 1% RF. Rookies Julio Rodriguez and Adley Rutschman had impressive offensive seasons, as did Steven Kwan. HANK AARON AWARDS NL: Paul Goldschmidt, St. Louis Cardinals, 45.59 Batting Value AL: Aaron Judge, New York Yankees, 79.26 Batting Value No surprise to see Judge, who led the league in HR with 62, breaking Roger Maris' single-season AL record and setting a de-facto new untainted/unquestionable MLB single-season HR record. Important to note that the actual record is still Barry Bonds' 73, whether we like it or not. Judge also led the league in RBI with 131 and was very close to winning the Triple Crown with his .311 batting average. His OPS was 1.11 and his wOBA was .458. He accomplished the rare feat of a positive Batting Value Average at .0136. He hit nearly 47 more homers than his positional first-quartile. Goldschmidt was also close to winning a Triple Crown, for a bit. His 35 HR were the 5th most in the NL, his 115 RBI were 2nd, and his .317 batting average was also up there. He had an OPS of .981 and a wOBA of .419. Goldie hit about 17 more HRs and 16 more doubles than his positional first-quartile. Here are the top 10 offensive players in MLB, according to Batting Value:
Alvarez and Freeman had fantastic offensive seasons, but couldn't beat out Ohtani and Goldschmidt in their respective positions and league. The file below shows the stats for all players in question. Players that should win the Silver Slugger have their Batting Values highlighted gray on their position's tab. Players that should win the Hank Aaron Award have their Batting Values highlighted gray on the main tab.
The data used was courtesy of Baseball Reference and can be found here.
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