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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 Red Sox 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. 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. You're probably wondering why David Ortiz isn't your Red Sox DH. Big Papi has the 2nd, 3rd, 4th, and 7th-11th best DH seasons among Red Sox players in history. His 46 Batting Value in 2007 is the most by a Red Sox DH in history. Martinez in 2018 follows just behind with 44 Batting Value. Ortiz in 2007 hit 35 HR, 52 doubles, had 117 RBI, led the league with a .445 OBP, and had a 1.066 OPS en route to a 4th place AL MVP finish. Martinez in 2018 hit 43 HR, 37 doubles, led the league with 130 RBI, and had a 1.031 OPS en route to a 4th place AL MVP finish. What gives Martinez the nod is his Fielding Value of 6 compared to Ortiz's Fielding Value of -2; when Martinez was not the DH and put into the field, he was more serviceable than Ortiz. Regardless, Ortiz and Martinez both had terrific offensive seasons that rank as the 2nd and 3rd best Batting Value seasons by a DH in history, only behind Frank Thomas in 1991. All-Time Team Total Player Value: 977.4053 (2nd in AL, 2nd in MLB)
All-Time Team Pitching Value: 289.7534 (1st in AL, 1st in MLB) All-Time Team Fielding Value: 198.8016 (10th in AL, 15th in MLB) All-Time Team Baserunning Value: -10.5756 (14th in AL, 29th in MLB) The All-Time Red Sox are of the greatest all-time teams in the league. Their most dominant area is their pitching, specifically their starting pitchers, which rank 1st in the league. This is due to the incredible seasons from Smoky Joe Wood, Pedro Martinez, and Babe Ruth, whose top Player Value seasons rank 3rd, 7th, and 9th respectively across all starting pitcher seasons from 1912-2021. Pedro was simply a phenomenal pitcher in 2000, ranking as the 5th highest Pitching Value season in history. Ruth and Wood had more rounded seasons, scoring very well in Pitching Value but also having solid Batting Value and Fielding Value as well. What Shohei Ohtani is doing nowadays is incredible, but I think people often underrate Ruth's pitching ability before he became a batting behemoth. In 1916 he went 23-12 and led the league with a 1.75 ERA. His 44 Pitching Value that season was the 2nd most in the league behind the legendary Walter Johnson, and after considering hitting and fielding his 67 Player Value was the most by a pitcher in all of baseball. Babe Ruth wasn't just a pitcher; he was one of the very best pitchers in all of baseball before his transition. Here is how the players on the all-time team compare in terms of their Player Value components: The team is led by Williams, Wood, and Doerr, each with 80+ Player Value seasons. Williams in 1946 won the AL MVP and posted a 10.6 WAR while leading the league in runs scored, OBP, slugging, and OPS. Wood in 1912 came 5th in the AL MVP and posted a 10.1 WAR and led the league in wins and shutouts. Doerr's value is more relative as a second baseman, and WAR has him at a more mellow 5.4. 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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