ozzie smith Stories - Beyond the Box Score
The Five Best St. Louis Cardinals Players by rWAR (1959-1988)
via www.throughthefencebaseball.com A little while back, Dave Schonefield wrote a terrific post on ESPN's Sweet Spot blog, "Five Best Players in Baseball: A History." Using cumulative WAR for five-year periods, Schoenfield listed the five top players in Major League Baseball. The post...
Graph of the Day: Ozzie vs. Andruw Historical WAR
Motivated by recent FanShot discussions, here are Ozzie's and Andruw's seasonal WAR totals sorted from best to worst, thanks to Rally's new WAR database that goes back to 1955 (the retrosheet era). Andruw has the better five-year and ten-year peaks, and both guys had nine seasons at what I call...
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