AL First Base
OK, I'm going to type as I research and see what comes of it. Season by season, the top first baseman by Win Shares:
1990: Cecil Fielder 29, Mark McGwire 27, Fred McGriff and George Brett 26
Right away a trio of overlooked first basemen. I forget that Brett moved to first when Seitzer came up. McGriff and Fielder were top first basemen.
1991: Fielder and Rafael Palmeiro 26, Wally Joyner 25
1992: Frank Thomas 33, McGwire 29, Palmeiro 24
1993: John Olerud 37, Thomas 32, Palmeiro 31.
Wow. Three 1B over 30 including Olerud's fantastic season.
1994: Thomas 25, Will Clark 19, Palmeiro and Mo Vaughn 17
Strike season and Thomas still posted 25.
1995: Thomas 28, Vaughn 24, McGwire 23
1996: Palmeiro 30, Vaughn and McGwire 29
1997: Thomas 39, Tino Martinez 27, Jim Thome 26
Thomas' total tied with Rickey Henderson (1991) for highest AL Win Shares of the 1990's.
1998: Vaughn 25, Palmeiro and Carlos Delgado 24
1999: Jason Giambi 30, Thome 26, McGriff 24
McGriff appears nine years later.
2000: Giambi 38, Delgado 36, Mark Sweeney 26
2001: Giambi 38, Thome 31, Palmeiro 25
2002: Thome and Giambi 34, Olerud 27
2003: Delgado 32, Giambi 28, Doug Mientkiewicz 20
2004: David Ortiz and Mark Texeira 25, Travis Hafner 22
A new regime in 2004.
Simply assigning three points for being top, two for second and one for third, with ties being shared:
Thomas 14
Giambi 13.5
Palmeiro 10.5
Thome 7.5
Vaughn 7
Delgado 6.5
McGwire 6.5
Fielder 5.5
Olerud 4
Ortiz 2.5
Texeira 2.5
W. Clark 2
T. Martinez 2
McGriff 1.5
Hafner 1
Joyner 1
Mientkiewicz 1
Sweeney 1
Brett .5
That run by Giambi was something else. But Thomas still ends up on top. Factor in his seasons where he played more games as a DH (1993 when he led the league in Win Shares, 1998 where his 25 Win Shares would have tied him with Vaughn and 2000 where his 34 ranked him third among 1B) and Thomas' domination is pretty clear.
posted by Mad Guru @ 4:28 PM
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