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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 Philadelphia 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. The AL did not have a DH until 1973. If you gave this earlier AL team a DH, you would probably go with Bob Johnson, who had 40.39 Batting Value in 1937 as a LF. He hit 25 HR and had a .981 OPS. As an aside, I think Johnson may be one of the more underrated players in history and deserving of the Hall of Fame. His traditional counting stats of 2,051 hits and 288 HR may not seem impressive, but he does have 55.5 career WAR and was an 8-time All-Star. His 378.39 Player Value is the 9th most among primarily leftfielders, behind only steroid users Barry Bonds and Manny Ramirez, Pete Rose who's banned, and 5 Hall of Famers. Note that Al Simmons in 1925 actually had the top CF season, but I didn't want to have any duplicate players on the all-time team. Simmons is the CF for the all-time Athletics franchise team since Rickey Henderson leads in LF. For just Philadelphia though, Simmons in LF in 1930 provided more value over Bob Johnson in LF in 1939 than Simmons in CF in 1925 provided over Sam Chapman in CF in 1941. Thus, Simmons was kept in LF and Chapman was inserted at CF. Similarly, Eddie Rommel in 1925 had the 4th best unique starter season. However, Rommel in 1920 as a RP provided more value over Joe Berry in 1944 as a RP than Rommel in 1925 as a SP did over Bobby Shantz in 1952 as a SP. Thus, Rommel was kept at RP and Shantz was inserted as a SP. Here is how the players on the all-time team compare in terms of their Player Value components: The team is led by Jimmie Foxx's incredible 98 Player Value season. Also towards the top is Eddie Joost with an 84 Player Value season, and Cochrane, Simmons, and Baker with 70+ 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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