Can you name the MLB hitters who produced the most WAR per plate appearance? by smartster

Can you name the MLB hitters who produced the most WAR per plate appearance?

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Name the position players with more than 40 career WAR who produced the most WAR per plate appearance. No players who played before 1900 are included.
Source: Baseball-Reference.com
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Team	Player	WAR/1000 PA (Rank)
Yankees		16.20 (1)
Giants		13.63 (2)
Cardinals		13.49 (3)
Red Sox		12.80 (4)
Giants		12.38 (5)
Yankees		12.26 (6)
Tigers		12.20 (7)
Yankees		12.13 (8)
Cardinals		12.05 (9)
Pirates		11.45 (10)

Team	Player	WAR/1000 PA (Rank)
Indians		11.09 (11)
Indians		10.90 (12)
Yankees		10.90 (13)
Dodgers		10.89 (14)
Phillies		10.76 (15)
White Sox		10.53 (16)
Twins		10.45 (17)
Braves		10.16 (18)
Cardinals		10.05 (19)
Yankees		9.99 (20)

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MLB WAR Wars Quiz

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Created Aug 31, 2011 in Sports
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	sinatra22:	Aug 31st, 2011 at 04:27 GMT		5 points
	Great quiz, but why the random order?

	JLKeip:	Aug 31st, 2011 at 12:56 GMT		-4 points
	Listing Shoeless Joe as an Indian is, I assume, because most of his WAR total came as an Indian. He played more games and had more plate appearances for the White Sox, and is clearly most remembered for incidents associated with his time as a member of the White Sox.

	sinatra22:	Aug 31st, 2011 at 13:21 GMT		5 points
	JLKeip, you are wrong. He had more games and more plate appearances for the Indians. You could have easily researched that before commenting.

	jeffthepardoner:	Aug 31st, 2011 at 14:13 GMT		1 point
	Jackson did play 26 more games with the Indians, but he is absolutely more widely associated with the White Sox.

	sinatra22:	Aug 31st, 2011 at 15:15 GMT		-3 points
	Obviously.

	macaw:	Aug 31st, 2011 at 17:07 GMT		1 point
	Good quiz. Could you do the same now, but for only a limited number of peak years? That would be a different cut and would eliminate the relative random deflation caused by both tails of careers.

	John0:	Aug 31st, 2011 at 18:13 GMT		2 points
	@macaw, ye know, it would be different and interesting to contrast, but that top five I imagine would just be higher up. They all played into their 40's.

	mraithel13:	Aug 31st, 2011 at 20:05 GMT		2 points
	wow. Mauer already has over 40 WAR?

	smartster:	Aug 31st, 2011 at 21:38 GMT		2 points
	@sinatra22: I first made it random order to make it just a tiny bit harder because IMO there were few surprises (I wonder how many people were thinking Frank Robinson or Reggie Jackson). But it may have been annoying so I changed it.

	smartster:	Aug 31st, 2011 at 22:01 GMT		2 points
	@macaw: I wish I had the db know-how to do some peak year stuff. This was my simple attempt to bridge the career WAR v. peak WAR 'controversy', so it's one cut at the best of the best. A-Rod is likely to drop off the list as he finishes his career. I'd expect Pujols to stay on.

	LinuxLinus:	Sep 1st, 2011 at 01:56 GMT		0 points
	White Sox and Red Sox have spaces in their names.

	Sixtytwobobs:	Sep 1st, 2011 at 04:01 GMT		1 point
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