Monday, May 16, 2011

Player Rankings First Basemen

Random player write-up.  My random number selected the #97 ranked first basemen.  That would be Justin Morneau. 
Justin Morneau: Overall Score: 16.14.  Career score: 4.27.  5 Consecutive: 3.92.  Average: 0.53.  3 Highest: 2.65.  10 Highest: 4.27.  All-Star Seasons: 1.  MVP Seasons: 0.  According to WAR, 2010 was his best season.  He only played in 81 games that year and suffered a concussion that would knock him out of the rest of the season and make him struggle in 2011.  His averaged WAR was 5.35, his slash line was .345/.437/.618, his wOBA was .447.  It was his best season by all those standards as well.  However, he did not even place in the MVP voting and won his MVP award in 2006.  In 2006, his slash line was .321/.375/.559 and had 130 RBI's.  His teammate Joe Mauer had a better season overall.  His slash line was .347/.429/.507.  But the writers of the BBWAA do love their RBI's and Mauer did not have enough of those.  He placed 2nd in RBI's.  David Ortiz had seven more and also had a higher WAR than Morneau.  The MVP selection seemed to be a bit bizarre even to a Twins fan, such as me.   Morneau will probably place higher in the top 100 list as his career goes on.  That is unless his struggles thus far in 2011 continue for a long period of time. 

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