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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 Houston Astros 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. Note that this includes all seasons of the Astros franchise while located in Houston, meaning the Houston Colt .45s from 1962-1964, and the Houston Astros from 1965 to present. However, no players from the Colt .45 years actually made the all-time team. 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. The list of possible DHs for the Astros is lower, since they did not begin play in the AL until 2013. The DH was first used by the AL in 1973, so the Astros are at a 40 year disadvantage. Alvarez was great in 2019 though, and arguably his 2022 season was even better, so the Astros still don't even have the worst DH among the AL all-time teams. All-Time Team Total Player Value: 766.2128 (9th in AL, 16th in MLB)
All-Time Team Pitching Value: 256.8277 (3rd in AL, 3rd in MLB) All-Time Team Fielding Value: 153.4463 (14th in AL, 24th in MLB) All-Time Team Baserunning Value: 6.1374 (3rd in AL, 9th in MLB) The All-Time Astros are pretty middle of the pack. Their worst area is their fielding, ranking as the 6th worst. They don't have any players with absurdly negative Fielding Values, but none of their players have excessively high Fielding Values either. Their best area is their pitching, ranking as the 3rd best. All 5 of their starters have at least 40+ Player Value, a pretty rare feat. Mike Scott is one of just 5 pitchers to deserve to win the MVP according to Player Value, along with Walter Johnson, Pete Alexander, Sandy Koufax, and Greg Maddux. He came 10th in reality in 1986, but did win the Cy Young and led the league with 8.4 WAR. Keuchal and Cole had about 6.5 WAR in their seasons, while Clemens and Verlander had about 7.5 WAR. Here is how the players on the all-time team compare in terms of their Player Value components: The team is led primarily by Craig Biggio's incredible 98 Player Value season, but Hidalgo and Bagwell also lead the way with 73 and 68 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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