WAR Leaders, 2010 to 2019

[Beans]

 

As we say goodbye to the 2010s, here are MLB's WAR leaders this decade.

 

Are you guys surprised by any of the names up here?

[Jimcanuck]

Surprised by Gardner, and where is Jose in RF. He put up more WAR than Heyward.

 

It's a misleading chart, given that some guys played more than 1 position over the decade. For example, Nelson Cruz. I'm surprised Cruz did not accumulate more than 11.8 WAR at the DH position.

[EMK19]

Surprised to see Jason Heyward still at 3rd for RF considering the downturn he’s had since he went to the Cubs... but I guess it also shows you how good he was until that point. Though that’s a pretty distant 3rd... wouldn’t have thought RF position pool would have been that thin... speaking of which, surprised to see no Bautista on there, even with his poor post 2015 numbers? I’d have figured he’d have more than Heyward.

[43211234]

What's the source on this?

 

Bautista put up around 35 WAR in that time, playing the vast majority of his innings in RF, and he's absent from the list.

[TheHurl]

What's the source on this?

 

Bautista put up around 35 WAR in that time, playing the vast majority of his innings in RF, and he's absent from the list.

 

bWAR and they have Heyward at 26.9 but it is 36.9.

 

Difference using fWAR

 

C - Lucroy beats out Martin for 3rd

1B - no change

2B - Zorilla replaces Kinsler

SS - 1. Tulo, 2. Lindor, 3. Andrus

3B - no change

LF - Yelich, Gardner, Upton

CF - Trout, Cutch, Yelich (if you go by most played position there could be some changes but I'm not searching that deeply)

RF - Stanton, Betts, Zorilla

DH - Cruz, EE, Ortiz

SP - Kershaw, Scherzer, Verlander, Sale, Greinke

RP - Chapman, Kenley and Kimbrel

[Stangstag]

bWAR is ass

[TheHurl]

Surprised by Gardner, and where is Jose in RF. He put up more WAR than Heyward.

 

It's a misleading chart, given that some guys played more than 1 position over the decade. For example, Nelson Cruz. I'm surprised Cruz did not accumulate more than 11.8 WAR at the DH position.

 

This chart went by position most played. Cruz is not a DH, he is RF.

[Beans]

I think Lindor has a chance to be a top 3 WAR leader again at the end of the 2020s.

[Spanky99]

I think Lindor has a chance to be a top 3 WAR leader again at the end of the 2020s.

 

lol... u think???

[KevinGregg]

bWAR is ass

 

Its not bad, their method makes more sense for pitchers than just scaling fip to runs like fWAR does

[Beans]

They are both suspect to me now that we have better defensive metrics to factor into WAR (like OAA).