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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.
In this post I will list out the All-Time Athletics lineup, according to Player Value. I will follow along the same format as MLB uses with its new "All-MLB" teams, which you can view here. That format is 1 player for each defensive position, 5 starters, and 2 relievers. I will only use DHs for AL teams, since most NL teams don't have enough seasons with the DH to really have a deserving player. This includes all years from the Athletics franchise since 1912, meaning the Philadelphia Athletics from 1912 to 1954, the Kansas City Athletics from 1955 to 1967, and the Oakland Athletics from 1968 to 2021. However, no players from the Kansas City Athletics ended up making the all-time team. You can view the Philadelphia Athletics specific all-time team here. You can view the Kansas City Athletics specific all-time team here. You can view the Oakland Athletics specific all-time team here. Importantly, and as the graphic above suggests, these are based on individual seasons according to Player Value. The question we want to ask here is which version of a player would we want on our team? I want to give guys that only played a few seasons with a team an equal chance at making the lineup as the guys that spent their entire careers with one team. There are probably some notable Athletics pitchers missing from the all-time lineup that surprise you. From the bullpen, where are Rollie Fingers and Dennis Eckersley? Among starters, where are Dave Stewart, Vida Blue, and Barry Zito? Dave Stewart's best season was 1990 with 31.11 Player Value, which ranks 11th among Athletics starters. Vida Blue's best season was 1971 with 29.35 Player Value, which ranks 15th. If you rely solely on Pitching Value, Blue's 37.88 in 1971 ranks 3rd behind two seasons from the legendary Hall of Famer Lefty Grove. Barry Zito's best season was 2005 with 24.32 Player Value, which ranks 23rd. Eckersley's best season was also 1990 with 21.29 Player Value, which ranks 7th among Athletics relievers. If you rely solely on Pitching Value, Eck's 22.43 in 1990 ranks 3rd. Rollie Fingers' best season was 1974 with 17.82 Player Value, which ranks 14th. From a career perspective, Eckersley's 95.95 Player Value and Fingers' 65.28 Player Value rank 1st and 2nd among Athletics relievers. This only includes their time playing for the A's. Likewise, Blue's 128.28 Player Value ranks 3rd among Athletics starters and Zito's 100.06 Player Value ranks 4th. Stewart's 27.95 Player Value ranks 20th. Unfortunately, his great 1990 season gets largely offset by his poor 1991 season. All-Time Team Total Player Value: 856.8496 (5th in AL, 7th in MLB)
All-Time Team Pitching Value: 223.2317 (10th in AL, 14th in MLB) All-Time Team Fielding Value: 211.2079 (8th in AL, 10th in MLB) All-Time Team Baserunning Value: 3.3211 (5th in AL, 16th in MLB) The All-Time Athletics are one of the better teams in history. Their position players rate very well, in terms of both batting and fielding. Their C/1B/DH unit ranks as the 2nd best and consists of 3 Hall of Famers; Cocharne and Foxx are bearing the weight, however, as Baines' 15 Player Value season is pretty low. Despite having the best baserunner of all-time, the team's worst area is actually its baserunning. Henderson as an individual had 8.5 Baserunning Value in 1990, but earlier guys like Foxx and Simmons are at around -3 Baserunning Value to bring the team's total down. Here is how the players on the all-time team compare in terms of their Player Value components: The team is led primarily by Jimmie Foxx, with an incredible 98 Player Value season. Joost ranks 2nd with an 84 Player Value season, and Cochrane, Henderson, and Baker also are near the top with 70+ Player Value seasons. View the file below to see the numerical values of the Player Value components for each player on the all-time team:
View the files below to see the Player Value components, hypothetical awards based on Player Value, and general statistics for each player season and position (if you're wondering how another player that isn't on the all-time team fares, this is the place to look):
And that's it! I'm trying to make these posts shorter and just focus on sharing the all-time teams themselves and necessary data files. If you want to investigate an individual season for a player on the all-time team, I encourage you to check out their page on Baseball Reference.
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