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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 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 since 1912, meaning the Boston Braves/Bees from 1912 to 1952, the Milwaukee Braves from 1943 to 1965, and the Atlanta Braves from 1966 to 2021. You can view the Boston Braves specific all-time team here. You can view the Milwaukee Braves specific all-time team here. You can view the Atlanta Braves 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. 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 Hank Aaron in 1962 actually had the top CF season, but I didn't want to have any duplicate players on the all-time team. Furthermore, Wally Berger in 1935 had the 2nd best CF season, so I couldn't use him either, and Hank Aaron in 1961 had the 3rd best CF season. The replacement options were Bob Horner at 1B in 1985, Lonnie Smith in LF in 1989, or Andruw Jones in CF in 2000. It came out that keeping Aaron at 1B and Berger in LF and putting Jones in CF resulted in the highest Player Value for the team. Starting Horner at 1B and putting Aaron in CF was a loss of 10.5 Player Value, starting Smith at LF and putting Berger in CF while keeping Aaron at 1B was a loss of 9.4 Player Value, while starting Jones at CF and keeping Aaron at 1B was the smallest loss at 8.2 Player Value. All-Time Team Total Player Value: 799.2192 (6th in NL, 12th in MLB)
All-Time Team Pitching Value: 194.3122 (10th in NL, 20th in MLB) All-Time Team Fielding Value: 257.7373 (1st in NL, 2nd in MLB) All-Time Team Baserunning Value: 1.5524 (12th in NL, 19th in MLB) The All-Time Braves are one of the better teams in history. Their strongest areas are the great fielding and infield, as well as their pitchers. Interestingly, their pitchers rank not as well when it comes to pitching. What makes them stand out is their ability to hit and play defense, compared to other pitchers. This isn't too shocking, given that the team's ace in Maddux has more Gold Gloves than any other pitchers, and another starter in Warren Spahn was known for his ability with a bat. Lefty Tyler was particularly valuable in batting and fielding, but not so much in pitching. 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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