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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 Phillies 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 Dick Allen in 1966, who was mainly a 3B. Allen in 1966 has the 5th highest Batting Value season in Phillies history since 1912, at 52.69. Of the 4 seasons ahead of him, 3 of them are from players already on the All-Time team (O'Doul, Schmidt, and Klein). The 4th highest Batting Value season is Lenny Dykstra in 1993 with 56.77. However, Dykstra was mainly a CF, so a lot of his Batting Value comes from being compared to other centerfielders. For the DH spot that comparison doesn't come into play since we don't really care about fielding ability. In an absolute sense, Allen in 1966 was clearly the superior hitter to Dykstra in 1993: 1.027 vs .902 OPS, .437 vs .400 wOBA, 40 vs 19 HR, 110 vs 66 RBI, etc. All-Time Team Total Player Value: 815.5191 (5th in NL, 10th in MLB)
All-Time Team Pitching Value: 236.9955 (2nd in NL, 8th in MLB) All-Time Team Fielding Value: 205.3182 (5th in NL, 12th in MLB) All-Time Team Baserunning Value: 10.4205 (2nd in NL, 3rd in MLB) The All-Time Phillies are one of the better teams in history. They are terrific at pitching and baserunning, and still solid at batting and fielding. Their starting rotation consists of 4 Hall of Famers. Many great Phillie pitchers like Cliff Lee, Curt Schilling, Roy Halladay, and Zack Wheeler failed to make the team due to how top heavy their hurlers are. Their outfield is also one of the best in history, with 2 Hall of Famers. Their biggest weakness would be their catcher and first baseman, though that unit stills ranks as about average. Here is how the players on the all-time team compare in terms of their Player Value components: The team is led by their great outfielders in Klein and Ashburn, who both had 80+ Player Value seasons. Hall of Fame legends Schmidt and Alexander also lead the way, both with 78 Player Value seasons, and both of which rank as the 5th highest at their position across all teams since 1912. Pete Alexander's season is probably the most impressive though, as a pitcher gaining that much Player Value is extremely rare. 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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