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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 New York Giants 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 Johnny Mize in 1948, who was mainly a 1B. Mize in 1948 has the 5th highest Batting Value season in New York Giants history, at 52.20. The 4 seasons ahead of him are all from players already on the all-time team (Mays, Hornsby, and Ott). Mize led the league with 40 HR and had a .959 OPS. Note that Mel Ott in 1938 actually had the top 3B season, but I didn't want to have any duplicate players on the all-time team. Ott in RF in 1929 provided more value over Ross Youngs in RF in 1920 than Ott at 3B in 1938 provided over Freddie Lindstrom at 3B in 1928. Thus, Ott was kept in RF and Lindstrom was inserted at 3B. Christy Mathewson surely would rank higher in the New York Giants' starting rotation, but most of his prime years were before 1912. Here is how the players on the all-time team compare in terms of their Player Value components: The team is led by Travis Jackson, Rogers Hornsby, and Willie Mays, each with an about 84 Player Value 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.
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