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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 Detroit Tigers 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. I will remind everyone that I currently only have Player Value since 1912. Ty Cobb still makes the all-time Tigers lineup with his 1917 season, but he also played 7 years prior to 1912, leading the league in OPS in 5 of them. By WAR, 1917 is his best season at 11.3, but his 1909-1911 seasons are all around 10+ WAR, so it's possible that his best season by Player Value would be before 1912, and I just don't have that captured yet. Note that Hank Greenberg in 1940 actually had the best Tiger season by a LF, but I didn't want to have any duplicate players on the all-time team. Greenberg as a 1B in 1937 added more value than Norm Cash as a 1B in 1961 did than Greenberg as a LF in 1940 added over Rocky Colavito as a LF in 1961; thus, Greenberg was kept at 1B and Colavito was inserted in at LF. All-Time Team Total Player Value: 869.5564 (4th in AL, 6th in MLB)
All-Time Team Pitching Value: 189.8862 (12th in AL, 22nd in MLB) All-Time Team Fielding Value: 214.8161 (6th in AL, 8th in MLB) All-Time Team Baserunning Value: -11.5429 (15th in AL, 30th in MLB) The All-Time Tigers are one of the better teams in history, and really lack any weak areas. Their worst piece is their baserunning, but that's the smallest portion of Player Value and almost all of that comes from Donie Bush's -9 Player Value in 1914. He stole 35 bases but was caught 26 times and in case you haven't heard, getting caught stealing is far worse than the gain of stealing a base. Besides that, basically all of the Tigers areas are in the top 10. They rank 22nd in pitching but their pitchers overall rank 9th, meaning their pitchers were good at fielding and batting. Their outfield consists of 2 Hall of Famers, their infield consists of 1 Hall of Famer and a future Hall of Famer in Miggy, and their C/1B/DH consists of a Hall of Famer, someone who should be in the Hall of Fame in Freehan, and another potential (albeit much less likely) future Hall of Famer in Martinez. Here is how the players on the all-time team compare in terms of their Player Value components: The team is led by Gehringer and Cobb with 94 and 81 Player Value seasons, respectively. 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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