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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 Kansas City Athletics 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. The AL did not have a DH until 1973. If you gave this earlier AL team a DH, you'd probably go with LF Elmer Valo in 1955, RF Rocky Colavito in 1964, or 1B Vic Power in 1956. They have the 3 highest Batting Value seasons from players not already on the all-time team, with 21.96, 18.74, and 15.19, respectively. Valo had a shorter season and played in just 112 games, only hitting 3 HR with 37 RBI, but posted an impressive .944 OPS. Colavito hit 34 HR with 102 RBI, along with a .873 OPS. Power hit 14 HR with 63 RBI and had a .787 OPS. The Kansas City Athletics are just a weird team. Before doing this, I had no familiarity with their uniforms or even what players had played for them. They are very similar to the Milwaukee Braves - northeast team relocates to the midwest for 13 years, then jumps ship again to its current location - but the Braves are much better remembered. For one, the Braves had a .563 winning percentage and won 2 NL pennants and a World Series while in Milwaukee. The Athletics had a .404 winning percentage and never made the playoffs while in Kansas City. They didn't even have a single winning season. The Braves uniforms in Milwaukee were much similar to what they still are today, while the A's uniforms are much different today than they were in KC. The Braves were full of future Hall of Famers - Hank Aaron, Warren Spahn, Eddie Mathews - as well as other great players like Del Crandall and Joe Torre. The Athletics were less stacked in Kansas City, and Catfish Hunter looks like a psychopath without a mustache! He was only there for their final 3 seasons. Some other future mainly Oakland players like Sal Bando and Bert Campaneris also started in Kansas City. The only other guy of note is Roger Maris, who was only in Kansas City for a year and a half. Afterwards he went to the Yankees and won back-to-back MVP awards. Jorge Posada's uncle, Leo Posada, also played for the Athletics in Kansas City, as did Hall of Fame manager Tony La Russa. Here is how the players on the all-time team compare in terms of their Player Value components: The team is led by Jerry Lumpe and Norm Siebern, both with 50+ 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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