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Ranking Baseball’s Best: The Outfield

The Majors Adam Waltersdorf will break down and attempt to rank all of baseball’s best at each and every position. The Infield rankings came out on Monday and Pitchers rankings coming out in two parts on Wednesday and Thursday. On Friday, every MLB team will be ranked in order.

Some considerations are:

This formula rewards career performance over young players just making a splash. Since the track record is smaller, it is harder to gauge if they have the staying power of the stars ahead of them on the list. For example, Derek Jeter isn’t one of the best five shortstops in the game anymore, but is still ranked higher because the formula rewards career performance over current.

All the players that are currently on the disabled or suspended are included in the list. When they are healthy or return from suspension, they will return to hold down their spots.

Players below the 20th ranking are often platoon players or young rookies that don’t have a big enough stat line to make an adequate assessment. Players below the 20th ranking are considered to be easily replaceable parts who will likely be pushed out of a job before the end of the 2013 season.

Left Field:

Formula: 65% offense, 35% defense

Average WAR is calculated by dividing the career WAR and dividing it by number of seasons completed.

Rank

Player

Team

AVG oWAR

AVG dWAR

Positional Weighted WAR

1

Ryan Braun

Milwaukee Brewers

5.57

-0.70

3.37

2

Bryce Harper

Washington Nationals

3.50

1.40

2.77

3

Josh Hamilton

Los Angeles Angels

4.15

-0.22

2.62

4

Yoenis Cespedes

Oakland Athletics

4.50

-1.20

2.51

5

Matt Holliday

St. Louis Cardinals

4.26

-0.76

2.50

6

Carl Crawford

Los Angeles Dodgers

2.72

0.22

1.84

7

Alex Gordon

Kansas City Royals

2.45

0.45

1.75

8

Carlos Gonzalez

Colorado Rockies

2.68

-0.12

1.70

9

Brett Gardner

New York Yankees

1.38

1.48

1.42

10

Alfonso Soriano

Chicago Cubs

2.41

-0.70

1.32

11

Justin Upton

Atlanta Braves

2.02

-0.23

1.23

12

Josh Willingham

Minnesota Twins

2.14

-0.70

1.15

13

Melky Cabrera

Toronto Blue Jays

1.80

-0.09

1.14

14

Matt Joyce

Tampa Bay Rays

1.64

-0.32

0.95

15

Juan Pierre

Miami Marlins

1.45

-0.20

0.88

16

Carlos Quentin

San Diego Padres

1.93

-1.09

0.87

17

David Murphy

Texas Rangers

1.46

-0.33

0.83

18

Michael Brantley

Cleveland Indians

1.30

-0.23

0.77

19

Andy Dirks

Detroit Tigers

1.15

-0.05

0.73

20

Nate McLouth

Baltimore Orioles

1.39

-0.74

0.64

 

Center Field:

Formula: 55% offense, 45% defense

Average WAR is calculated by dividing the career WAR and dividing it by number of seasons completed.

Rank

Player

Team

AVG oWAR

AVG dWAR

Positional Weighted WAR

1

Mike Trout

Los Angeles Angels

4.65

1.10

3.05

2

Austin Jackson

Detroit Tigers

3.60

2.00

2.88

3

Andrew McCutchen

Pittsburgh Pirates

5.08

-0.18

2.71

4

Curtis Granderson

New York Yankees

3.47

0.59

2.17

5

Denard Span

Washington Nationals

2.56

0.90

1.81

6

Matt Kemp

Los Angeles Dodgers

3.59

-0.73

1.64

7

Michael Bourn

Cleveland Indians

1.76

1.24

1.53

8

Jacoby Ellsbury

Boston Red Sox

2.30

0.37

1.43

9

Shin-Soo Choo

Cincinnati Reds

2.64

-0.29

1.32

10

Adam Jones

Baltimore Orioles

2.34

0.06

1.31

11

B.J. Upton

Atlanta Braves

2.61

-0.39

1.26

12

Jon Jay

St. Louis Cardinals

2.10

0.13

1.22

13

Coco Crisp

Oakland Athletics

1.78

0.50

1.21

14

Angel Pagan

San Francisco Giants

1.76

0.44

1.17

15

Colby Rasmus

Toronto Blue Jays

1.85

0.33

1.16

16

David DeJesus

Chicago Cubs

2.07

-0.12

1.08

17

Dexter Fowler

Colorado Rockies

1.98

-0.30

0.95

18

Franklin Gutierrez

Seattle Mariners

0.91

1.00

0.95

19

Desmond Jennings

Tampa Bay Rays

1.53

0.17

0.92

20

Cameron Maybin

San Diego Padres

1.00

0.58

0.81


Right Field:

Formula: 70% offense, 30% defense

Average WAR is calculated by dividing the career WAR and dividing it by number of seasons completed.

Rank

Player

Team

AVG oWAR

AVG dWAR

Positional Weighted WAR

1

Carlos Beltran

St. Louis Cardinals

3.85

0.57

2.87

2

Ichiro

New York Yankees

3.93

0.31

2.85

3

Jason Heyward

Atlanta Braves

3.03

1.23

2.49

4

Giancarlo Stanton

Miami Marlins

3.10

0.37

2.28

5

Nick Markakis

Baltimore Orioles

3.19

-0.41

2.11

6

Norichika Aoki

Milwaukee Brewers

2.80

0.10

1.99

7

Torii Hunter

Detroit Tigers

2.56

0.54

1.95

8

Hunter Pence

San Francisco Giants

2.83

-0.25

1.91

9

Shane Victorino

Boston Red Sox

2.17

0.54

1.68

10

Alex Rios

Chicago White Sox

2.01

0.60

1.59

11

Andre Either

Los Angeles Dodgers

2.57

-0.89

1.53

12

Ben Zobrist

Tampa Bay Rays

1.53

0.97

1.36

13

Jayson Werth

Washington Nationals

1.92

-0.12

1.31

14

Jay Bruce

Cincinnati Reds

1.72

-0.20

1.14

15

Drew Stubbs

Cleveland Indians

1.50

0.25

1.13

16

Marlon Byrd

New York Mets

1.42

0.06

1.01

17

Mark Trumbo

Los Angeles Angels

1.53

-0.27

0.99

18

Michael Cuddyer

Colorado Rockies

1.73

-1.02

0.91

19

Will Venable

San Diego Padres

1.14

0.20

0.86

20

Nelson Cruz

Texas Rangers

1.34

-0.50

0.79

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