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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 Chicago White 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. All-Time Team Total Player Value: 848.5050 (7th in AL, 14th in MLB)
All-Time Team Pitching Value: 231.4690 (7th in AL, 10th in MLB) All-Time Team Fielding Value: 287.0959 (1st in AL, 1st in MLB) All-Time Team Baserunning Value: -3.9723 (10th in AL, 25th in MLB) The All-Time White Sox are pretty average compared to the other all-time teams. Their best area is their fielding, ranking 1st. That's mainly due to Collins and Lemon with 40+ Fielding Value each, but Eaton and Bonura also help with 30+ Fielding Value and Kamm is not far behind with 29 Fielding Value. Collins' 12 Rfield in 1915 is the 2nd most of his career behind his 24 in 1910, which is before when I Player Value for. Lemon had 18 Rfield in 1977, Bonura as a 1B had 7 Rfield in 1936, Eaton had 25 Rfield in 2016, and Kamm had 14 Rfield in 1926. So no bad defensive seasons there. The other strong area for the White Sox is the value of their pitchers, but not necessarily at pitching but more so at hitting and fielding. Ed Walsh in 1912 had a .600 OPS across 154 PAs, easily the highest quality with considerable quantity of his career. That gave him 8 Batting Value as a pitcher. Walsh that season also had a 3.71 range factor per 9 innings, while the average pitcher only had an RF9 of 2.96. So as a fielder Walsh basically got you an .7 more outs per game, which led to him having 12 Fielding Value as a pitcher. Similar stories are there for the other White Sox pitchers - besides being good pitchers, they also could hit and field relatively well for their position. Here is how the players on the all-time team compare in terms of their Player Value components: The team is led by Eddie Collins and Ed Walsh with 99 and 78 Player Value seasons, respectively. Walsh's 78 Player Value as a pitcher in 1912 is the 4th best season by a pitcher since 1912. Ahead of him are Smoky Joe Wood in 1912 and Walter Johnson in 1913 and 1912. 1912 was simply a fantastic pitching year. Walsh had 11.4 WAR, Wood had 10.1 WAR, and Johnson had 13.2 WAR. Only 44 players have had 10+ WAR from 1912-2021. Collin's 99 Player Value as a 2B in 1915 is nearly equally as impressive, ranking as the 12th highest by a position player since 1912. Ahead of him are 5 seasons from Babe Ruth, 2 seasons from Joe Morgan, and 1 season from Barry Bonds, Lou Gehrig, Frankie Frisch, and Rogers Hornsby. 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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