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Contreras (#40) to Suzuki (#31)



It’s a brand new month, however we nonetheless have some outdated enterprise earlier than us.

I began counting down my record of baseball’s prime 100 gamers on January 14, unveiling successive teams of 10 batters and pitchers every Tuesday and Friday. That introduced us to forty first place earlier than the calendar flipped to February.

We now have 4 installments of the Baseball 100 to go — two this week and two subsequent. We’ll start with the gamers ranked fortieth to thirty first.

Each story on this sequence features a nine-paragraph boilerplate clarification of my scoring system. Be at liberty to skip on to immediately’s 10 profiles if you want.

The rankings inside the Baseball 100 are decided by 2024’s general base values (OBV), which measure the relative effectiveness of batters and pitchers.

A optimistic OBV signifies one in all two issues:

  • A selected batter reached extra bases than the common huge leaguer would have attained beneath similar circumstances.

  • A given pitcher surrendered fewer bases than his typical counterpart would have yielded beneath the identical situations.

Click on right here if you wish to know extra concerning the formulation and calculations. (Bear in mind that OBV is barely completely different from the BV described within the hyperlink. The preliminary signal for a pitcher’s BV is reversed for his OBV. A unfavourable signal is healthier for a pitcher’s BV, however a optimistic signal is right for an OBV, which is what we’re utilizing right here.)

The participant with the best OBV — whether or not a hitter or pitcher — is deemed to be the most effective general participant. The rankings proceed downward so as.

If two or extra gamers are tied with similar OBVs, I break the tie by matching their ratios of bases per out (BPO) in opposition to 2024’s big-league common of .675. BPO is precisely what it appears like, a comparability of bases reached or yielded (by hits, walks, hit batters, stolen bases, and sacrifices) in opposition to outs made or induced.

Choice inside a tie is given to the participant who surpassed the BPO norm by the best quantity, both above .675 for a batter or beneath the identical mark for a pitcher.

Every participant within the Baseball 100 is listed along with his rank, membership, main place (the one he performed greater than another in 2024), BPO or BPO allowed (BPOA), the numbers of bases and outs concerned, and OBV.

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  • Membership: Brewers

  • Main place: C

  • BPO: .819 (on 370 bases and 452 outs)

  • OBV: +65

  • Backside line: William Contreras is one in all two catchers to qualify for the Baseball 100, and he carries the higher score of the pair. His counterpart is his brother, Willson, who ranks 73rd.

  • Membership: Pink Sox

  • Main place: P

  • BPOA: .547 (on 295 bases and 539 outs)

  • OBV: +69

  • Backside line: Houck’s file was simply 9-10. However his 3.12 ERA was seventh-best within the American League, and he posted the league’s lowest ratio of house runs allowed (0.55 per 9 innings).

  • Membership: Braves

  • Main place: P

  • BPOA: .541 (on 284 bases and 525 outs)

  • OBV: +71

  • Backside line: Fried labored 174.1 innings for Atlanta in 29 begins. Two have been full video games, the Nationwide League’s finest complete. He signed with the Yankees as a free agent after the season.

  • Membership: Dodgers

  • Main place: LF

  • BPO: .839 (on 369 bases and 440 outs)

  • OBV: +72

  • Backside line: Hernandez generated 33 homers and 99 RBIs in his first season with the Dodgers. He may have departed as a free agent, however he signed a brand new take care of Los Angeles in January.

  • Membership: Mariners

  • Main place: P

  • BPOA: .478 (on 175 bases and 366 outs)

  • OBV: +72

  • Backside line: Woo improved dramatically throughout his second season in Seattle. He upgraded his ERA from 4.21 in 2023 to 2.89 in 2024, whereas producing a 9-3 file in 22 begins.

  • Membership: Brewers

  • Main place: LF

  • BPO: 1.052 (on 201 bases and 191 outs)

  • OBV: +72

  • Backside line: A again harm ended Yelich’s season in mid-August. His OBV of plus-72 nearly matched his 73 video games performed. He batted .315 with a formidable on-base share of .406.

  • Membership: Tigers

  • Main place: P

  • BPOA: .418 (on 119 bases and 285 outs)

  • OBV: +73

  • Backside line: Holton made 9 begins, kind of. He didn’t work greater than three innings in any of them. His true worth was as a reliever, holding opponents to a .173 batting common in 66 video games.

  • Membership: Padres

  • Main place: P

  • BPOA: .542 (on 309 bases and 570 outs)

  • OBV: +76

  • Backside line: The White Sox traded Stop to San Diego in spring coaching. He responded with 33 begins (essentially the most within the Nationwide League) and a 3.47 ERA (ninth-best within the NL).

  • Membership: Dodgers

  • Main place: SS

  • BPO: .902 (on 303 bases and 336 outs)

  • OBV: +76

  • Backside line: Betts’s productiveness was severely lowered by a fractured hand, which restricted him to 116 video games. He nonetheless managed to bat .289, drive house 75 runs, and rating 75 extra.

  • Membership: Cubs

  • Main place: RF

  • BPO: .877 (on 336 bases and 383 outs)

  • OBV: +77

  • Backside line: Suzuki’s third season in Chicago ranked as his finest. He completed with 21 homers and 73 RBIs. His .283 batting common was tops on the Cubs’ roster.

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