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Garret Anderson Love

Courtesy of Jon Heyman (H/T AJM of LSB)

8. Garret Anderson. Here's another terrific hitter caught in a nightmare of a hitting market. He's been among the more productive outfielders in the AL over the last several years, and while he has seemingly been around forever, he's still only 36.)

Well, at least the word "underrated" didn't make its way into that snippet. This part caught my eye:

He's been among the more productive outfielders in the AL over the last several years

So I went to FanGraphs, pulled up the Value leaderboards over the last three years, hit the "AL" and "OF" tabs, and sent the data to Excel. Anderson has amassed ~54 runs in replacement value over this time, so I think it's fair to compare him to every AL outfielder with at least, say, 40 replacement runs?

That takes us down to 33 players.

Star-divide

I then ordered by wins. Here's the top 15:

Name Value Wins
Grady Sizemore 20.5
Curtis Granderson 14.4
Magglio Ordonez 13.7
Ichiro Suzuki 12.6
Alex Rios 12.2
Carl Crawford 11.6
Nick Markakis 10.9
Vladimir Guerrero 10
David DeJesus 9.9
Johnny Damon 9.7
Torii Hunter 8.2
Vernon Wells 8.1
Manny Ramirez 7.8
B.J. Upton 7.7
Nick Swisher 7.6

Hm...no Garret. Well, how about the final 18?

Raul Ibanez 6
Coco Crisp 5.8
Jermaine Dye 5.7
Chone Figgins 5.6
Bobby Abreu 5.6
Casey Blake 5.5
Mark Teahen 5
Gary Matthews Jr. 4.7
Hideki Matsui 4
Michael Cuddyer 3.6
Garret Anderson 3.5
Emil Brown 3.3
Jose Guillen 2.3
Melky Cabrera 1.3
Jay Payton 1.2
Jason Kubel 0.5
Delmon Young -0.1

Ah, there he is! Just ahead of Emil Brown. At least he's a terrific hitter.

Name Team Batting Fielding Replacement Positional
Garret Anderson Angels 0.1 6.8 54.4 -26.1

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I think it's for the best if I never take Jon Heyman seriously again.

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"Again?"

Bringing you more-or-less replacement level analysis and commentary since sometime in 2008.

by devil_fingers on Jan 28, 2009 10:53 PM EST reply actions   0 recs

I didn't know Anderson was an above average fielder

I always though he was in the Dunn/Ibanez territory.

vivaelbensheets

by vivaelpujols on Jan 29, 2009 12:53 AM EST reply actions   0 recs

As pointed out on Lone Star Ball:

Boras client.

I think that’s also why he seems to consider Kenny Rogers a future Hall of Famer.

by philkid3 on Jan 29, 2009 12:53 AM EST reply actions   0 recs

When the guy behind you on a list is Emil "DFA" Brown

you know you have problems.

"I'm on hold for now"- Bobby Crosby

by DyeLongJustice on Jan 29, 2009 10:10 AM EST reply actions   0 recs

and Brown was clearly superior in 2005 and 2006

Bringing you more-or-less replacement level analysis and commentary since sometime in 2008.

by devil_fingers on Jan 29, 2009 1:15 PM EST up reply actions   0 recs

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