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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 Oakland Athletics 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. Baines is the DH because he has the highest Player Value among players that were primarily a DH for the season. If you want to instead insert someone who was the best batter not already on the all-time team, you'd probably go with Mark McGwire in 1996 or Reggie Jackson in 1969. Both guys have significantly more Batting Value than Baines did in 1991. McGwire was mainly a 1B and Jackson was mainly a RF, both offensively demanding positions, so there probably isn't a significant difference between the positional baselines used than that of DH. Baines hit 25 doubles and 20 HR with a .857 OPS. Jackson hit 36 doubles and 47 HR with a 1.018 OPS. McGwire hit 21 doubles and 52 HR with a 1.198 OPS. Here is how the players on the all-time team compare in terms of their Player Value components: The team is led by Henderson and Giambi, both with 70+ Player Value seasons. Henderson won the MVP in 1990, and Giambi finished 2nd in 2001. Giambi did win the MVP in 2000, but even WAR agrees that 2001 was his better year. Newcomer and international phenom Ichiro Suzuki was awarded the 2000 MVP for his rookie season in which he led the league in hits, steals, and batting average. 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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