We've gone through all the positions listing the best and worse seasons for Jay players at each position, so I thought as an off day project I'd list the best and worst seasons for all the position players. I'd thought it would be a quick little fun thing to do, since I'd already listed them. But after double checking a few of the platers I found that some of the WAR values have been changed on Sean Smith's WAR Database. I guess there was a re-working of the formula. So I spent longer on this than I intended to. Such is life. I also noticed that Sean Smith's WAR values are different than the WAR values at Fangraphs.
Tables after the jump.
The Top 22. Why 22? Because I wanted to include all seasons of 5.0 or better:
1 1993 John Olerud 8.2 1B 2 1986 Jesse Barfield 7.3 RF 3 2006 Vernon Wells 6.7 CF 4 1989 Fred McGriff 6.6 1B 5 1985 Jesse Barfield 6.6 RF 6 2000 Carlos Delgado 6.5 1B 7 1992 Roberto Alomar 6.4 2B 8 2003 Carlos Delgado 6.3 1B 9 1984 Lloyd Moseby 6.2 CF 10 1993 Roberto Alomar 6.1 2B 11 1988 Fred McGriff 6.1 1B 12 1993 Devon White 6.0 CF 13 1999 Shawn Green 5.9 RF 14 1991 Devon White 5.8 CF 15 1983 Lloyd Moseby 5.7 CF 16 1993 Paul Molitor 5.7 DH 17 1992 Devon White 5.3 CF 18 1998 Carlos Delgado 5.2 1B 19 2007 Aaron Hill 5.2 2B 20 2002 Carlos Delgado 5.1 1B 21 1987 Tony Fernandez 5.0 SS 22 1987 George Bell 5.0 LF
And the bottom 11:
|
1 |
1997 |
Carlos Garcia |
-2.3 |
2B |
|
2 |
1984 |
Alfredo Griffin |
-2.3 |
SS |
|
3 |
1978 |
Luis Gomez |
-1.9 |
SS |
|
4 |
1981 |
Alfredo Griffin |
-1.9 |
SS |
|
5 |
1977 |
John Scott |
-1.7 |
CF |
|
6 |
2006 |
Russ Adams |
-1.6 |
SS |
|
7 |
2000 |
Homer Bush |
-1.5 |
2B |
|
8 |
1996 |
Joe Carter |
-1.3 |
LF |
|
9 |
1984 |
Garth Iorg |
-1.2 |
3B |
|
10 |
1997 |
Joe Carter |
-1.2 |
DH |
|
11 |
1984 |
Willie Aikens |
-1.1 |
DH |
Quick thoughts:
- Most of the bottom ones are middle infielders.
- Joe Carter hits the bottom list, mostly because of Cito's stubbornness, he kept using Carter when he had Shawn Green and Carlos Delgado sitting on his bench.
- 3 first basemen too 6 of the top spots.
- As well, 3 CFers have 6 top spots.
- The George Bell season that is number 22 on the list was our one MVP award.