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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 Miami Marlins 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. If you had to give this NL team a DH spot, you would probably go with Gary Sheffield in 1996, who was mainly a RF. Sheffield in 1996 has the highest Batting Value season in Marlins history, at 53.04. Yes, even more than Giancarlo Stanton's MVP year in 2017 (46.99 Batting Value). Stanton may have hit 59 homers compared to Sheffield's 42, but Sheffield struck out just 66 times compared to Stanton's 163 and was walked 142 times compared to Stanton's 85. Sheffield led the league in OBP in 1996 with .465, while Stanton's in 2017 was just .376. However, Stanton did lead the league in slugging in 2017 with .631, compared to Sheffield's .624. Regardless, Sheffield's OPS of 1.090 beats the 1.007 from Stanton. His OPS+ was also higher (189 vs 169), as was his Rbat (72 vs 57). The reason Stanton beats out Sheffield for the starting RF spot comes down to fielding; Stanton had 16.37 Fielding Value while Sheffield had just -11.82. WAR agrees, giving Stanton 11 Rfield while giving Sheffield -16 Rfield, ultimately putting Stanton at 7.9 WAR and Sheffield at 5.9. All-Time Team Total Player Value: 554.7893 (15th in NL, 29th in MLB)
All-Time Team Pitching Value: 185.7958 (11th in NL, 24th in MLB) All-Time Team Fielding Value: 119.2317 (14th in NL, 29th in MLB) All-Time Team Baserunning Value: 0.4642 (14th in NL, 21st in MLB) The All-Time Marlins are unfortunately one of the worst teams in history, and the worst team in NL history. A big reason for that is simply being one of the newest teams, however. Most teams have had since 1912 or sometime in the 1960s for their sample of players, but the Marlins only have since 1993. Not all is woe, though, as they have 2 World Series championships in that timeframe, more than several teams. Their most competitive position group are their pitchers, specifically their starters. Their worst is their catcher and first base combination, though I personally can't critique the Pudge & Delgado duo. Here is how the players on the all-time team compare in terms of their Player Value components: The team is led by Ramirez and Stanton, both with 60+ Player Value seasons. Kevin Brown and Dee Strange-Gordon are also towards the top with 50+ Player Value seasons. Such a high Player Value is less common for pitchers, so Brown may have had the most uniquely valuable season. 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. Well... maybe a little more. I'm doing those posts for each MLB franchise, but will also be doing ones for certain historic teams that no longer exists, such as the Washington Senators and Montreal Expos. I initially also did this for the Florida Marlins and Miami Marlins. I've since decided that these really aren't two distinct teams, as they have the same nickname (Marlins) and are located in the same city, despite changing the place name from Florida to Miami and changing their color scheme. Nonetheless, sense I already put in the work of this split, I will share those results here. Here's what the All-Time Florida Marlins (1993-2011) team looks like:
And here's what the All-Time Miami Marlins (2012-2021) team currently looks like:
If I included the 2022 season, obviously there's a good chance that Alcantara becomes that version of himself, and likely becomes the team's ace.
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