Best (i.e. most valuable) assembled MLB hitting lineups of my lifetime (1980-2012) Quiz by cjd1167

Can you name the best (i.e. most valuable) assembled MLB hitting lineups of my lifetime (1980-2012)?

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Source: Fangraphs
Batting stats ONLY. Hitter rankings-Fangraphs' Batting value (wRAA [Runs Above Average] w/ park adjustment). Position used is defensive position with most games. * = active in 2012 (MLB or minors).
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All-First Team
C - 431.7 wRAA, 427 HR, .922 OPS
1B - 738.5 wRAA, 521 HR, .974 OPS
2B - 322.7 wRAA, 377 HR, .856 OPS, 94 SB
SS* - 668.0 wRAA, 647 HR, .944 OPS
3B* - 606.6 wRAA, 468 HR, .930 OPS, 150 SB
LF - 1176.6 wRAA, 762 HR, 1.051 OPS
CF - 521.3 wRAA, 630 HR, .908 OPS
RF - 603.2 wRAA, 509 HR, .907 OPS, 253 SB
DH* (best hitter remaining) - 702.2 wRAA, 555 HR, .996 OPS, primarily a LF

All-Second Team
C - 236.3 wRAA, 275 HR, .848 OPS
1B* - 689.8 wRAA, 475 HR, 1.022 OPS, 92 SB
2B - 281.8 wRAA, 291 HR, .796 OPS, 3060 Hits
SS* - 377.8 wRAA, 255 HR, .830 OPS, 3304 Hits
3B - 572.1 wRAA, 309 HR, .933 OPS, .312 AVG
LF - 572.9 wRAA, 296 HR, .824 OPS, 1373 SB
CF - 367.0 wRAA, 393 HR, .903 OPS, .284 AVG
RF* - 456.3 wRAA, 449 HR, .932 OPS, 181 SB
DH* (best hitter remaining) - 639.7 wRAA, 612 HR, .956 OPS, primarily a 1B

All-Third Team
C* - 200.7 wRAA, 94 HR, .873 OPS, .323 AVG
1B - 618.7 wRAA, 449 HR, .948 OPS, 202 SB
2B - 275.0 wRAA, 210 HR, .814 OPS, 474 SB
SS - 243.8 wRAA, 431 HR, .787 OPS, 3184 Hits
3B - 468.9 wRAA, 118 HR, .858 OPS, 3010 Hits
LF - 378.0 wRAA, 381 HR, .933 OPS, 88 SB
CF - 343.9 wRAA, 287 HR, .858 OPS, 147 SB
RF - 444.0 wRAA, 383 HR, .965 OPS, 230 SB
DH (best hitter remaining) - 596.6 wRAA, 583 HR, .982 OPS, .263 AVG, primarily a 1B

All-Fourth Team
C - 177.8 wRAA, 245 HR, .818 OPS, .241 AVG
1B - 502.3 wRAA, 569 HR, .886 OPS, 3020 Hits
2B - 241.9 wRAA, 238 HR, .795 OPS, 114 SB
SS - 221.7 wRAA, 229 HR, .882 OPS, .313 AVG
3B - 366.2 wRAA, 219 HR, .823 OPS, 441 SB
LF - 344.3 wRAA, 170 HR, .810 OPS, 808 SB
CF - 289.3 wRAA, 352 HR, .873 OPS, 181 SB
RF* - 425.8 wRAA, 287 HR, .873 OPS, 399 SB
DH* (best hitter remaining) - 498.1 wRAA, 429 HR, .925 OPS, primarily a 1B

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Best MLB hitting lineups of my lifetime (1980-2012) Quiz

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	budtaff:	Dec 11th, 2012 at 16:03 GMT		2 points
	by your DH definition, shouldn't Manny be the DH on the 1st team? In fact all the other team's 1st baseman have a better RAA than McGwire. It looks like you took whoever was left over after the top 4 teams and then put them at DH. Instead of taking whoever was best leftover after each team.

	cjd1167:	Dec 11th, 2012 at 16:05 GMT		1 point
	You are exactly right, that's how I did it. I can understand the confusion, and I think your way makes more sense. I will update the quiz. Thanks!

	hayudi:	Dec 11th, 2012 at 16:55 GMT		2 points
	the DH for the fourth team does not have 3020 hits

	cjd1167:	Dec 11th, 2012 at 16:57 GMT		1 point
	Thanks for catching that...copy/paste mistake!

	deej:	Dec 11th, 2012 at 19:03 GMT		2 points
	I find the presentation/layout needlessly cluttersome. Why not just call it "top five wRAA at each position since 1980?" We don't know who you are so we don't really care about your lifetime, and all the extra stats aren't really helpful (aside from home runs maybe).

	cjd1167:	Dec 11th, 2012 at 19:43 GMT		1 point
	deej, I sort of agree with you...at least regarding the layout being cluttered. I definitely want to keep it simpler for future quizzes. I thought the other stats would be useful as hints, but I can see how most of them arent helping much (besides probably HRs and 3,000+ hits). I see your point about the "lifetime" thing, but that was why the quiz idea occurred to me so I decided to go with it.

	atr3ides:	Dec 11th, 2012 at 21:40 GMT		8 points
	There is something wrong with a statistic if both Jorge Posada and Mickey freaking Tettleton are ranked higher than Ivan Rodriguez.

	cjd1167:	Dec 11th, 2012 at 21:59 GMT		3 points
	I was surprised by that too, especially given Pudge's high number of plate appearances. I think it comes down to his numbers being too weak relative to average hitters' numbers during the peak of the steroid era during which he played.

	drj9879:	Dec 12th, 2012 at 05:25 GMT		1 point
	This is what I hate about judging players based on these hypothetical statistics like "Runs above average w/ park adjustments". Base on these statistics Ivan Rodriguez is worse than Mickey Tettleton and Ryne Sandberg is worse than Lou Whitaker. Wow, statistics are dumb.

	mraithel13:	Dec 12th, 2012 at 05:26 GMT		1 point
	didn't realize Pudge's OPS+ was only 106 compared to Mickey's 122.

	moneal59:	Dec 12th, 2012 at 14:57 GMT		2 points
	where in heavens name did u put Tony Gwynn? .338 lifetime avg......Jeff Kent?????

	Canes20:	Dec 12th, 2012 at 15:15 GMT		-4 points
	Even if the numbers don't say their the best at their positions you still need Ivan Rodriguez. He's the best catcher of the last 20 years

	cjd1167:	Dec 12th, 2012 at 15:38 GMT		4 points
	Hey, I was just going by the stats...if I had just picked who I thought was the best player at each position, I would have made some different choices. I believe this stat is a very good measure of who the best HITTERS were, relative to league average for each season they played. Ivan Rodriguez was great, obviously, but his batting stats alone just werent that great in that era. Gwynn was very close to Abreu, but honestly that looks reasonable to me. Gwynn had a much better average, but Abreu had a lot more power and got on-base more than Gwynn despite the lower batting average.

	cjd1167:	Dec 12th, 2012 at 15:41 GMT		3 points
	Also, if the quiz was based on WAR (i.e. total player value) and not batting only, Pudge would have been #1, quite a bit ahead of Piazza. His bat was good, but that wasnt the part that made him an all-time great catcher.

	tmonation:	Dec 12th, 2012 at 19:28 GMT		2 points
	Has no one mentioned that Sammy Sosa isn't on this list? Only a .273 hitter but hard to argue against a 600 HR hitter

	RollTribeAC:	Dec 12th, 2012 at 22:12 GMT		0 points
	you sure mike schmidt shouldn't be on here?

	ctown:	Dec 13th, 2012 at 02:42 GMT		1 point
	Ellis Burks???

	cjd1167:	Dec 13th, 2012 at 16:56 GMT		1 point
	Sosa: Lots of HRs yes, but his AVG and OBP werent that good. His career .878 OPS is kind of shocking considering the era he played in. He's actually well below Abreu. Schmidt: Way too few plate appearances from 1980-on. He had about half the plate appearances of Molitor and Boggs. Burks: This is a surprising one, I agree. He benefited from a fairly weak or flawed group of CFs. The hitters right behind him are Beltran, Puckett, and Dale Murphy.

	hankbaskett:	Dec 14th, 2012 at 10:05 GMT		2 points
	Wouldn't Robin Yount be a CF not a SS? He did start as a SS, but he actually spent more time in the outfield than he did as a shortstop post 1980.

	cjd1167:	Dec 14th, 2012 at 12:32 GMT		1 point
	hankbaskett - nice catch...I will update this as well as updating per the first comment.

	cjd1167:	Dec 14th, 2012 at 12:58 GMT		1 point
	OK, I made all the necessary updates. A few players moved around in the lineups, but overall there were 2 players who ended up being replaced: Berkman and Yount were dropped (Yount is just barely behind Burks for the last CF spot), and Raines and Nomar were added. Nomar is my favorite position player of my lifetime, so I'm thrilled he's now in the lineup!

	superspurjm:	Dec 15th, 2012 at 19:27 GMT		-2 points
	Why is it that people think that nothing ever happened before they were born??? CJD-Here's a dirty little secret....they played baseball before you were born! Oh, and they played it well! I think that it is incredibly ego-centric of you to say 'in my lifetime.' Who Cares? Two suggestions: Get an avatar for your photo so we will take you serious, and change the name of this quiz to 'Modern Era-1980-on' or 'From 1980 to Present.' I'm not trying to be mean, I'm just telling you how it comes across to the rest of us. Anyway, good quiz otherwise.

	cjd1167:	Dec 23rd, 2012 at 00:46 GMT		1 point
	Thanks for the comments, superspurjm. Yes, I know baseball was played before I was born. I'm aware and fairly knowledgable of pre-1980 baseball. My reasoning for naming the quiz as I named it was to make a "personal" connection even though I fully understand that no one knows or cares who I am or when I was born. I surmised that people might find the quiz to be more interesting or appealing with the name I used in lieu of a more sterile "1980 to 2012" title. I had to laugh at your avatar comment. I completely understand your point, and I think I will change my avatar pic, but my laughter is due to the irony of YOUR avatar. Should I take you "serious" because of your vague picture of mountains (vs my vague, standard picture of the moon)? haha