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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 Mets 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 Howard Johnson in 1989, who was mainly a 3B. Johnson in 1989 has the 4th highest Batting Value season in Mets history, at 45.72. All 3 of the seasons ahead of him are from players already on the All-Time team (Alfonzo, Beltran, and Strawberry). An honorable mention goes out to Mike Piazza in 2000, who placed 5th with a Batting Value of 40.99. Piazza had more HRs (38 vs 36) and a higher OPS (1.012 vs ,928) than Johnson, but the even more advanced metrics like OPS+, Rbat, and, well, Batting Value, favor Johnson. All-Time Team Total Player Value: 643.4246 (10th in NL, 22nd in MLB)
All-Time Team Pitching Value: 210.0325 (6th in NL, 16th in MLB) All-Time Team Fielding Value: 106.0489 (15th in NL, 30th in MLB) All-Time Team Baserunning Value: 7.1698 (7th in NL, 8th in MLB) The All-Time Mets are one of the more mediocre teams in history. They are the worst defensive team in history, and their position players rate pretty poorly across the board. They do rank as one of the better baserunning teams, but that is the smallest piece of Player Value. Their pitchers rate well in the NL, but come out as average across MLB as a whole. Gary Carter accounts for nearly 20% of the Mets' total Fielding Value. Here is how the players on the all-time team compare in terms of their Player Value components: The team is led by Beltran and Alfonzo, both with 60+ Player Value seasons. Carter and Strawberry are also towards the top 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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