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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 Twins franchise 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. Note that this includes all seasons of the Twins franchise, meaning as the Washington Senators from 1912-1960 and as the Minnesota Twins from 1961 to present. You can view the all-time Minnesota Twins team here. You can view the all-time Washington Senators here. Note that this post includes all years that the Senators were in Washington. That means as a part of the Twins franchise from 1912-1960, and as part Rangers franchise from 1961-1971. They technically were called the Nationals from 1905-1955, but I only have Player Value going back to 1912 and the team was commonly referred to (including by the fans and by Baseball Reference) as the Senators during that timeframe. They were officially the Washington Senators from 1901-1904 and from 1956-1960. I didn't think it made sense to have a Twins-specific Senators team and a Rangers-specific Senators team, since the city of Washington had a singular Senators team consistently from 1912-1971. 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: 889.1084 (3rd in AL, 5th in MLB)
All-Time Team Pitching Value: 286.1861 (2nd in AL, 2nd in MLB) All-Time Team Fielding Value: 222.9137 (4th in AL, 7th in MLB) All-Time Team Baserunning Value: -7.3187 (12th in AL, 27th in MLB) The All-Time Twins are one of the best teams in history. Unlike most of the other teams towards the top, that hasn't contributed as much success. The Twins have won 3 World Series and 6 pennants. By comparison, the Giants all-time team ranks 3rd and they've won 8 World Series and 23 pennants. They Dodgers all-time team ranks 4th and they've won 7 World Series and 24 pennants. The Athletics all-time team ranks 7th and they've won 9 World Series and 15 pennants. You get the idea - the Twins franchise has racked up some solid players but haven't had enough of them at the same time. Their worst area is their baserunning, which is the smallest piece of Player Value so not as big of a deal. Their next worst area is their outfield, which still only ranks slightly below average. Their pitching and infield all rank extremely well. Their starting rotation consists of the 1st, 29th, and 31st best pitchers since 1912 in Johnson, Santana, and Blyleven. Here is how the players on the all-time team compare in terms of their Player Value components: The team is led primarily by Walter Johnson's and Buddy Myer's incredible 90+ Player Value seasons. Rod Carew and Joe Cronin are also towards the top with 80+ Player value seasons. Johnson's season is probably the most impressive, as it is extremely rare for a pitcher to accrue that Player Value. In fact, Johnson's 1912 season ranks as the highest Player Value for a pitcher in the entire span from 1912-2021. His 1913 season ranks 2nd, then Smoky Joe Wood's 1912, Ed Walsh's 1912, Pete Alexander's 1915, Walter Johnson's 1914, Pedro Martinez in 2000, Sandy Koufax in 1965, Babe Ruth in 1916, and Greg Maddux in 1998. If you rely instead on Pitching Value rather than total Player Value by pitchers, Pedro Martinez in 1999, Roger Clemens in 1997, Walter Johnson in 1919, and Greg Maddux in 1995 rank towards the top. WAR agrees with the dominance of these pitchers too. Maddux had 9.7 WAR in 1995, Clemens had 11.9 in 1997, Pedro had 9.8 in 1999 and 11.7 in 2000, Koufax had 8.1 in 1965, Walsh had 11.4 in 1912, Wood had 10.1 in 1912. Walter Johnson had 10.6 WAR in 1919, 11.7 in 1914, 15.1 in 1913, and 13.2 in 1912. It is clear that the early 1900s and the late 1900s were the zenith of pitching dominance, and Walter Johnson is the king of that hill. There's a reason he is the greatest pitcher of all-time according to Player Value, so the Twins all-time team are fortunate to have him on their squad. On another note, Johan Santana's 2004 season also ranks as the 15th best season by Pitching Value. 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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