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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 Dodgers 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 Dodgers franchise since 1912, meaning the Brooklyn Dodgers/Robins from 1912 to 1957 and the Los Angeles Dodgers from 1958 to 2021. You can view the Brooklyn Dodgers specific all-time team here. You can view the Los Angeles Dodgers 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 Mike Piazza in 1997, who was mainly a C. Piazza in 1997 has the 2nd highest Batting Value season in Dodgers history, at 65.62. The only Dodger with more Batting Value is Duke Snider in 1953, who is already on the all-time team. Even though Piazza was a catcher and likely benefitted from the positional comparison, he was a stellar hitter in 1997 regardless of his position. He hit 40 HR with an impressive 1.070 OPS, and led the league with a 185 OPS+. All-Time Team Total Player Value: 865.4705 (2nd in NL, 4th in MLB)
All-Time Team Pitching Value: 253.6216 (1st in NL, 4th in MLB) All-Time Team Fielding Value: 181.4807 (6th in NL, 16th in MLB) All-Time Team Baserunning Value: 7.5656 (6th in NL, 7th in MLB) The All-Time Dodgers are one of the best teams in history. Their pitchers, both the starting rotation and the bullpen, are exceptional. And that's not even including other great Dodger hurlers such as Clayton Kershaw, Don Sutton, Orel Hershiser, Dazzy Vance, or Fernando Valenzuela. While their fielding is closer to average, their batting and baserunning are top notch. The Hall of Fame duo of Campanella and Hodges at C and 1B is one of the best in history, and is particularly impressive given that these guys actually played with each other. Here is how the players on the all-time team compare in terms of their Player Value components: The team is led by color-line-breaking greats of Roy Campanella and Jackie Robinson, both of whom 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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