Can you name the best MLB players (according to WAR) by position by year 2000-2009?

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2000
C (NYY)
1B (COL)
2B (SF)
3B (ANA)
SS (SEA)
LF (ANA)
CF (ATL)
RF (PHI)
SP (BOS)
RP (CIN/COL)

2001
C (TEX)
1B (OAK)
2B (SEA)
3B (STL)
SS (TEX)
LF (SF)
CF (KC)
RF (CHC)
SP (ARI)
RP (CHW)

2002
C (NYY)
1B (CLE)
2B (SF)
3B (STL)
SS (TEX)
LF (SF)
CF (STL)
RF (MON)
SP (ARI)
RP (HOU)

2003
C (ATL)
1B (COL)
2B (ATL)
3B (TEX)
SS (TEX)
LF (SF)
CF (STL)
RF (ATL)
SP (BOS)
RP (LAD)

2004
C (BAL)
1B (STL)
2B (SD)
3B (LAD)
SS (BAL)
LF (SF)
CF (STL)
RF (SEA)
SP (MIN)
RP (NYY)

2005
C (CLE)
1B (STL)
2B (BAL)
3B (NYY)
SS (ATL)
LF (PIT)
CF (ATL)
RF (LAA)
SP (HOU)
RP (NYY)

2006
C (MIN)
1B (STL)
2B (PHI)
3B (STL)
SS (2 tied: DET,MIL)
LF (WAS)
CF(NYM)
RF (SEA)
SP (MIN)
RP (BOS)

2007
C (LAD)
1B (STL)
2B (PHI)
3B (NYY)
SS (COL)
LF (COL)
CF (DET)
RF (DET)
SP (HOU)
RP (CLE)

2008
C (2 tied: ATL,MIN)
1B (STL)
2B (PHI)
3B (ATL)
SS (FLA)
LF (2 tied: BOS/LAD,COL)
CF (NYM)
RF (BAL)
SP (SF)
RP (NYY)

2009
C (MIN)
1B (STL)
2B (TB)
3B (LAA)
SS (FLA)
LF (MIL)
CF (SEA)
RF (CLE)
SP (KC)
RP (OAK)

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MLB Highest WAR by Position (2000s) Quiz

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	fnurt:	Oct 12th, 2012 at 21:03 GMT		13 points
	This quiz has been taken 3,094 times as of this writing, and 70% got all 100 answers correct. That seems... unlikely.

	hotrod14:	Oct 12th, 2012 at 21:05 GMT		12 points
	only 6.6% of people guessed Gabe White, yet 70% of quiz takers got every answer correct?

	ironsij0287:	Oct 12th, 2012 at 21:08 GMT		9 points
	I refuse to acknowledge Chone Figgins being good.

	DarkPhalanx:	Oct 13th, 2012 at 03:00 GMT		4 points
	Okay good I'm not the only person who noticed that the results here make no sense.

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	deej:	Oct 13th, 2012 at 06:07 GMT		4 points
	Results are weird indeed. The only thing I can think of was that the relief pitchers were added after this quiz had already been taken a number of times, and all the people who got a perfect (42% right now, despite 6% for Gabe White) were from before this addition.

	chikka2:	Oct 13th, 2012 at 06:37 GMT		3 points
	What an array of excellence.We have a list of superb players with skills beyond hitting and pitching.

	edykhuizen:	Oct 13th, 2012 at 12:42 GMT		2 points
	I don't know what's up with the results. I didn't add any players after the quiz had been taken a number of times. Something must be wrong in Sporcle's stat compliation.

	bmo1616:	Oct 13th, 2012 at 23:30 GMT		-2 points
	This is why WAR is an irrelevant statistic, can't stand people who actually use this to evaluate a player.

	lollerskates:	Oct 14th, 2012 at 00:16 GMT		2 points
	****ing betancourt.

	whoisdannyb:	Oct 14th, 2012 at 05:04 GMT		-1 points
	WAR is awful. no chance oswalt was better than peavy in '07. and if franklin gutierrez was the best CF in '09 then they need to tinker the formula to evaluate this arbitrary statistic

	WCRoentgen:	Oct 14th, 2012 at 10:35 GMT		1 point
	In case of a tie, can you display both players, maybe last names like: Mauer/McCann?

	edykhuizen:	Oct 14th, 2012 at 12:55 GMT		1 point
	Good thought, but I can't make any edits because it's a published game.

	OwningAllUNewbs:	Oct 14th, 2012 at 19:18 GMT		-3 points
	9 of the people on his list were correctly guessed by less than a third of people playing. 15 of the people on the list were correctly guessed by less than half the people playing. 25 of the people playing were correctly guessed by less than two-thirds of the people playing. But ...... 30% of people got a perfect score? 44% of people got 90+? Make any sense to you?

	OwningAllUNewbs:	Oct 14th, 2012 at 19:20 GMT		-4 points
	I got 73 correct and ended up in the 28th percentile despite not knowing one person in my peer group who knows anywhere near as much about baseball as I do. Yep, nobody cheats on Sporcle.

	edykhuizen:	Oct 15th, 2012 at 14:24 GMT		1 point
	Something's definitely wrong with the results. Anyone know how to complain to Sporcle?

	BradHughey:	Oct 19th, 2012 at 05:24 GMT		1 point
	I legitimately got 91 correct aside from having to look up how to spell Gutierrez, and I got in the 74th percentile. There's no way 1 in 4 people know more than that. As everyone else has stated, there's obviously something wrong with the results.

	tombradyrocks:	Oct 31st, 2012 at 19:27 GMT		1 point
	I got 92 without cheating, all the guys I forgot were on the far right, the most guessed one being Granderson. I find it hard to believe about 1/4 of people did better.

	edykhuizen:	Nov 1st, 2012 at 16:41 GMT		1 point
	I think we've firmly established that the results are whacked. What I haven't heard from anyone is what to do about that.

	EpicWinFTW:	Jan 19th, 2013 at 23:14 GMT		1 point
	@fnurt: It's not out of the question. The only "impossible" answer has a fairly common name. The rest you can get just by knowing who played what position for whom.

	edykhuizen:	Jan 20th, 2013 at 13:49 GMT		1 point
	Actually, I figured out the problem -- when I made the quiz, there were five starting pitchers. When Sporcle published it, they removed most of the starters. But the stats were not revised accordingly, so plenty of people got more answers right in the past than there are answers now.

	orangeafroman:	Jan 23rd, 2013 at 17:11 GMT		1 point
	I cannot remember Troy Glaus. Ever. I can picture him, know he existed, but on these quizzes, I NEVER remember his name. Ugh.

	serf_in_USA:	Mar 27th, 2013 at 18:16 GMT		1 point
	Hard to believe Mike Piazza didn't make any of these lists.

	edykhuizen:	Mar 28th, 2013 at 14:47 GMT		1 point
	That was a surprise for me too. He definitely makes the 1990s one. But his defense was bad enough to knock his WAR down below others in the years when his offense wasn't otherworldly.