Detroit Tigers All Time WAR per Sean Smith's database..

7 months ago Mike Rogers 11 comments 0 recs |

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Sorry if it’s hard to read the names. They are:

Charlie Gehringer, blue line
Ty Cobb, pink line
Hank Greenberg, red line
Al Kaline, green line
Harry Heilman, purple line

It’s basically Cobb and everyone else. For the record, Alan Trammel, Lou Whitaker, and Sam Crawford all came in lower than everyone else.

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by Mike Rogers on Jul 8, 2009 5:15 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

Okay, once every team has their retired numbers done like this, we might have to compare the best retired number from each team.

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by bs.uf15bosox9bears23 on Jul 8, 2009 5:26 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

I like it. Who's on it...?

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by Sky Kalkman on Jul 8, 2009 5:34 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Best player, by WAR/season, of each team?

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by bs.uf15bosox9bears23 on Jul 8, 2009 11:11 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

This isn’t complete, then, if we’re going that route, since guys like Henie Manush are on this graph, but I love, love, that idea.

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by Mike Rogers on Jul 8, 2009 9:53 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Could also be fun

To compare the best player at each number.

I am guessing that Babe Ruth wins 3?

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by jessef on Jul 10, 2009 9:36 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Mantle at 7, and so on.

But, Maris or Williams at 9? Or someone else outside the rivalry?

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by bs.uf15bosox9bears23 on Jul 10, 2009 1:26 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Roger Maris played six seasons for the Yankees. Sure, he won two MVP awards, but Ted Williams also won two MVP awards and somehow didn’t win the two seasons he won the Triple Crown — the season immediately prior to WWII and the second season after WWII. He OPS+ed 160 or better every season of his career, except 1959 at 40 years old. Roger Maris was a fine player and was supposedly excellent in the outfield, but he’s not even close.

Ted Williams was kind of a jerk who made fun of Richie Ashburn for hustling but he was still insanely good at actually playing baseball.

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by jessef on Jul 13, 2009 10:45 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs