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The positional power rankings is missing catcher
also it would be pretty cool to average out all the positions and rank them from high to low, im just too lazy to do that
As in “overall position player power rankings?” I think that would be a good idea. Someone else please go through the enormous effort so I can read that.
I did that here last weeK:
http://mobile.thegoodphight.com/2012/3/7/2851686/positional-power-rankings
I did that, though haven’t posted it online. Here are the total rankings:
1. Texas
2. NYY
(gap)
3. Boston
(big gap)
4. Philly
5. Tampa Bay
6. St. Louis
7. LAA
(gap)
8. Detroit
(gap)
9. Miami
10. Arizona
(gap)
11. Cincy
12. San Fran
13. Milwaukee
14. Atlanta
15. Cleveland
16. Minnesota
17. Toronto
18. ChiSox
19. Washington
(gap)
20. KC
21. Colorado
22. ChiCubs
(gap)
23. LAD
24. Baltimore
25. Mets
(big gap)
26. Pittsburgh
27. San Diego
28. Seattle
29. Oakland
(gap)
30. Houston
If you do this, you need to adjust DH because it is AL-only and starting pitcher because it is much more important than individual offensive positions.
Actually, what it’s really missing is relievers. But hopefully that will be here on Monday.
How about a re-sort of the positional power rankings by team in addition to by position? It’d allow one to quickly see teams’ strengths and weaknesses and the like.
Here’s AL East. Ran out of time to do the others:
Blue Jays
C – 21
1B – 20
2B – 16
SS – 3
3B – 8
CF – 28
RF – 1
LF – 27
DH – 6
SP – 19
Orioles
C – 8
1B – 23
2B – 28
SS – 5
3B – 24
CF – 16
RF – 16
LF – 24
DH – 14
SP – 25
Rays
C – 27
1B – 13
2B – 3
SS – 25
3B – 1
CF – 5
RF – 12
LF – 9
DH – 7
SP – 3
Red Sox
C – 18
1B – 3
2B – 1
SS – 16
3B – 6
CF – 1
RF – 17
LF – 8
DH – 1
SP – 12
Yankees
C – 16
1B – 4
2B – 4
SS – 13
3B – 10
CF – 2
RF – 9
LF – 3
DH – 8
SP – 7
that’s great; thanks!