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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 Yankees 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. Note that the Yankees were the New York Highlanders from 1903-1912, so any 1912 seasons here would be as Highlanders. They have been the Yankees since 2013. 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 All-Time Yankees may not look how you'd expect, so let's address some positions. Hall of Famer Bill Dickey beats out Hall of Famer Yogi Berra for the catcher spot. WAR agrees that Dickey's best season was better than Berra's (6.5 in 1937 vs 6.2 in 1956). Berra's best season by Player Value was 1950 with 66, which ranks as the 3rd best by a Yankees catcher. Gil McDougald beats out Hall of Famers Derek Jeter and Phil Rizzuto for the shortstop spot. WAR thinks that Jeter's best season was better than McDougald's or Rizzuto's (8.0 in 1999 vs 5.8 in 1957 and 6.8 in 1950). Jeter's 63 Batting Value in 1999 is the most by a Yankees shortstop in history, but his poor fielding gives him a 57 Player Value that ranks 2nd behind McDougald's 58 in 1957. Rizzuto in 1950 ranks 6th among Yankees shortstop seasons with 51 Player Value. Ultimately Player Value is a little more impressed with McDougald's offense and defense than WAR is, probably due to the positional comparison. Snuffy Stirnweiss beats out Hall of Famers Joe Gordon and Tony Lazzeri, as well as other notable Yankees in Willie Randolph and Robinson Cano, for the second base spot. WAR agrees that Stirnweiss had the best season, as his 8.8 WAR in 1945 beats out Cano's 8.4 in 2012, Lazzeri's 7.8 in 1929, Gordon's 7.7 in 1942, and Randolph's 6.6 in 1980. And there's a lot of older Yankees starting pitchers on the all-time team. That's because of their quality Batting Value and/or Fielding Value, in addition to their solid Pitching Value. Carl Mays led the league with 27 wins in 1921 but also had 22 RBI and a .798 OPS as a pitcher. That's the idea. Note that Babe Ruth in 1920, 1924, 1927, 1928, 1930, and 1931 actually had the top 6 RF seasons, but I didn't want to have any duplicate players on the all-time team. Ruth in LF in 1921 added more value over Charlie Keller in LF in 1943 than Ruth in RF in 1920 did over Aaron Judge in RF in 2017; thus, Ruth stayed in LF and Judge was slotted in at RF. Of course, Aaron Judge's 2022 season was probably even better than his 2017 season, but I only have Player Value so far from 1912-2021. All-Time Team Total Player Value: 986.8557 (1st in AL, 1st in MLB)
All-Time Team Pitching Value: 228.2902 (8th in AL, 12th in MLB) All-Time Team Fielding Value: 206.7387 (9th in AL, 14th in MLB) All-Time Team Baserunning Value: -6.1343 (11th in AL, 26th in MLB) Unsurprisingly, the All-Time Yankees are the greatest of the all-time teams. Their strongest area is their batting, led by the legendary Hall of Fame sluggers of Ruth, Gehrig, and Mantle. Their outfield and C/1B/DH position groups are their strongest units, which include the aforementioned 3 Hall of Famers, as well as Hall of Famer Bill Dickey. Their bullpen also ranks 1st, led by the greatest closer of all-time in Mariano Rivera. Here is how the players on the all-time team compare in terms of their Player Value components: The team is led by Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig, who both had exceptional 117 Player Value seasons. These are the 2nd and 3rd best seasons by Player Value in history. The best season is actually by Babe Ruth in 1923, in which he won the MVP but was actually a utility player, having not spent at least 50% of his time at one position. 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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