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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 Seattle Mariners 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. All-Time Team Total Player Value: 673.109 (13th in AL, 23rd in MLB)
All-Time Team Pitching Value: 194.302 (11th in AL, 21st in MLB) All-Time Team Fielding Value: 175.3606 (11th in AL, 29th in MLB) All-Time Team Baserunning Value: 4.5582 (4th in AL, 12th in MLB) The All-Time Mariners are towards the bottom of the all-time teams in history. They are one of the newer franchises, however, as only 4 teams are younger and the Blue Jays also began playing in 1977. Their worst area are their fielding, their bullpen, and their C/1B/DH unit. Edgar Martinez ranks as the best primarily DH in history via Player Value, but he's at 3B for our all-time team. Their best area is their baserunning, but that's the smallest component of Player Value. I'll make an aside that the late 1990s and early 2000s Mariners awe me. In 1997 they had Randy Johnson, Alex Rodriguez, Edgar Martinez, and Ken Griffey Jr. all on the same team. That's 3 Hall of Famers and another guy that would be in if not for steroids, though he's still on the ballot so his case is technically TBD. Each of those guys had an incredible seasons of 5+ WAR, and while the team was good - they went 90-72 and won the AL West - they still lost pretty handedly in the ALDS to Orioles. Not what you would expect from such a loaded lineup. It's not like the rest of the team was garbage either; Jeff Fassero and Jamie Moyer also had basically 4 WAR seasons, and Jay Buhner had 3.3 WAR and hit 40 HR. Then later they lose Johnson, but still in 1999 have Junior, A-Rod, and Edgar, each with about 5 WAR. They go 79-83 and finish 3rd in the AL West. Then they lose Junior, but still have A-Rod and Edgar in 2000, who put up basically 10 WAR and 6 WAR. Team does well in regular season - going 91-71 and finishing 2nd in the AL West - and stellar in the postseason, advancing to the ALCS. But then they lose A-Rod, and Edgar is now 38, but somehow they go a whopping 116-46 and again go to the ALCS. Because now they have the MVP and RoY Ichiro and a stellar (but juiced) season from Bret Boone. It's amazing how what seemed like such a dynasty never actually won a title, and I wonder what a team with Johnson, Rodriguez, Griffey, Martinez, and Suzuki would have looked like. Here is how the players on the all-time team compare in terms of their Player Value components: The team is led primarily by A-Rod, with an incredible 91 Player Value season, as well as by The Kid, with an impressive 75 Player Value season. 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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