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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 St. Louis Browns 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'd probably go with LF Heinie Manush in 1928, whose 35 Batting Value is the most by a Browns player not already on the all-time team. That season Manush led the league with 241 hits and 47 doubles, and had an OPS .989 while finishing 2nd for the AL MVP. A special note is deserving of the legendary Satchel Paige, who makes the all-time Browns team despite being at least 45 years old in 1952. Imagine what could have been had Paige been able to compete on an MLB team during his prime seasons. Here is how the players on the all-time team compare in terms of their Player Value components: The team is led by George Sisler and Harlond Clift, with 95 and 87 Player Value seasons, respectively. Sisler in 1920 led the league with a .407 batting average and his 257 hits also led the league and set the new MLB record for hits in a season, until it was broken by Ichiro in 2004 with 262 hits. 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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