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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 Texas Rangers 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. Note that Josh Hamilton in 2008 actually had the top CF season, but I didn't want to have any duplicate players on the all-time team. Hamilton in LF in 2010 added more value over Juan Gonzalez in LF in 1993 than Hamilton in CF in 2008 did over Gary Matthews in CF in 2006; thus, Hamilton stayed in LF and Matthews was slotted in at CF. Similarly, Rafael Palmeiro in 1993 also had the actual top 1B season. However, Palmeiro at DH in 1999 added more value over Milton Bradley at DH in 2008 than Palmeiro at 1B in 1993 did over Mark Teixeira at 1B in 2005; thus, Palmeiro stayed at DH and Teixeira was inserted at 1B. You are probably wondering, where is Pudge?! Ivan Rodriguez has the 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 7th, 9th, 11th, 14th, and 15th best individual Player Value seasons among catchers in Rangers history. Jim Sundberg has the 6th, 8th, and 10th best Player Value seasons among Rangers catchers. Darrel Porter and Geno Petralli sit at 12th and 13th. Mike Napoli just happens to have the best individual season by a catcher. Pudge's best season by Player Value was 1999, with 33.71 Player Value. Napoli's 2011 is slightly higher at 37.93 Player Value. WAR does not quite agree; it has Napoli's 2011 at 5.5 WAR and Pudge's 1999 at 6.4 WAR, but that difference is not substantial. WAR does agree that Napoli had the better offensive season than Pudge. I imagine Player Value is probably underselling Pudge's defensive value, and hopefully the next iteration will give us more clarity. Across their careers as Rangers, Ivan Rodriguez is clearly the best catcher, with 215.32 Player Value. Sundberg is 2nd with 46.85 Player Value, and Napoli is 3rd with 36.27 Player Value. 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's incredible 95 Player Value season. The next group of players toward the top are Bell, Kinsler, and Hamilton, each with a 60+ 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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