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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 Royals 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. If you're a Kansas City baseball fan and feel any allegiance to the Kansas City Athletics for some reason, you can check out their all-time team here. Their last season in Kansas City was 1967, just before the Royals began play. 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. Ok, maybe you're wondering why Frank White isn't at 2B. He had the 3rd, 5th-8th, and 10th-12th best Player Value seasons at 2B in Royals history. His best year was 1984, when he put up 41 Player Value. WAR agrees that 1984 was his best season and has him at 4.1 WAR. WAR also gives Whit Merrifield in 2018 the edge, rating him at 4.5. Across their entire Royals careers, nobody has more Player Value at 2B than White does; Merrifield just happens to have had a better single season. All-Time Team Total Player Value: 703.6933 (11th in AL, 20th in MLB)
All-Time Team Pitching Value: 238.6621 (6th in AL, 7th in MLB) All-Time Team Fielding Value: 231.3285 (2nd in AL, 6th in MLB) All-Time Team Baserunning Value: 16.7935 (1st in AL, 1st in MLB) The All-Time Royals are towards the bottom of the all-time teams across all MLB franchises. They are uniquely specialized, ranking as the best baserunning team and one of the best pitching and fielding teams, but also as one of the worst batting teams. Willie Wilson and Carlos Beltran lead the charge for baserunning - Wilson ranks 4th in Baserunning Value among LF in history, while Beltran ranks 6th in Baserunning Value among CF in history. Wilson stole 79 bases in 1980 and was caught 10 times, while Beltran stole 41 bases in 2003 and was caught 4 times. Those are 89% and 91% clips. Freddie Patek and Wilson lead the charge for fielding. Wilson ranks 2nd in Fielding Value among LF in history, and posted 24 Rfield in 1980 along with an above average fielding percentage (.983 vs .980) and range factor (3.04 vs 2.35) for his position. Patek is not an all-time great SS, but he does rank 8th in Baserunning Value among SS in history. The same defensive metrics I used for Wilson also show that Patek was a good fielder in 1973. The Royals just lack solid hitting, outside of Brett. Mayberry, Beltran, McRae, and Perez have decent Batting Values, but everyone else is fairly lackluster. For corner outfielders, Wilson's and Dye's Batting Values are particularly unimpressive. Here is how the players on the all-time team compare in terms of their Player Value components: The team is led primarily by George Brett's stellar 79 Player Value season in 1980, when he won the AL MVP and led the league in every triple-slash-line category, and thus OPS as well. 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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