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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 Boston Braves 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 Braves franchise while they were in Boston since 1912, meaning the Boston Braves from 1912 to 1935, the Boston Bees from 1936 to 1940, and the Boston Braves again from 1941 to 1952. 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. If you had to give this NL team a DH spot, you would probably go with Rogers Hornsby in 1928, who was mainly a 2B. Hornsby in 1928 has the highest Batting Value season in Braves history, at 76.13. Part of the reason his Batting Value may be so high is because of the relative comparisons to his 2B positional peers, but he was certainly still absolutely a quality batter across all positions. He earned what is called the "sabermetric Triple Crown" by leading the league in batting average, OBP, and slugging, with a slash line of .387/.498/.632. He also led the league with an OPS of 1.130 and an OPS+ of 202. Bill Sweeney beats out Hornsby for the top 2B spot on the Braves all-time team due to his incredible Fielding Value and Hornsby's minimal Fielding Value. I suspect that my planned improvements to Player Value will sort this out. Note that Wally Berger in 1930 actually had the top LF season, but I didn't want to have any duplicate players on the all-time team. Berger in CF in 1935 added more value over Tommy Holmes in CF in 1944 than Berger in LF in 1930 did over Sid Gordon in LF in 1950; thus, Berger stayed in CF and Gordon was slotted in at LF. Similarly, Johnny Cooney is 1924 also had the actual 3rd best SP season. However, Cooney as a RP in 1923 added more value over Ben Cantwell at RP in 1932 than Cooney as a SP in 1924 did over Art Nehf at SP in 1917; thus, Cooney stayed at RP and Nehf was inserted at SP. Here is how the players on the all-time team compare in terms of their Player Value components: The team is led by their middle infield duo of Bill Sweeney and Eddie Miller, who both rate as incredible fielders and both produced 80+ 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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