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Free Agency And The Elias Rankings
By Administrator | October 31, 2007
In settling the 1981 Major League Baseball strike, players and owners agreed to a system for ranking major league players for the purpose of determining the compensation to be received by a team when it loses a player through free agency.
The settlement to the bargaining impasse included a formula that would be applied to the statistics accumulated by all major league players over the most recent two-year period… the parties agreed that the application of the formula and the consequent production of the rankings would be the responsibility of The Elias Sports Bureau.
The system divides players into five different groupings in each of the two leagues — starting pitchers, relief pitchers, catchers, 1B/DH/OF, and 2B/3B/SS. Players are placed into the position at which the player appeared the most over the last two seasons… and then they are rated against one another based upon a variety of statistics. For offensive players, the categories include batting average, on-base percentage, home runs, runs batted in, and fielding percentage… for pitchers, the statistics include appearances, innings pitched, wins, winning percentage, saves, earned run average, WHIP, strikeouts and strikeout-to-walk ratio.
Players are then ‘compared’ to one another based upon these statistics using the agreed-upon formula… they are rated within each of the five grouings, as well as overall (by league). The top 20% of the rankings within the respective groupings are designated as “Type A” free agents and the next 40% are designated “Type B” free agents.
For this winter, the players who would rank as Type A free agents in each grouping are provided below - with their score:
American League
Starting Pitchers: 1) Johan Santana [95.040]; 2) C.C. Sabathia [93.452]; 3) Roy Halladay [91.567]; 4) John Lackey [89.583]; 5) Chien-Ming Wang [87.897]; 6) Josh Beckett [86.706]; 7) Dan Haren [85.913]; 8 ) Scott Kazmir [85.714]; 9) Erik Bedard [85.218]; 10) Kelvim Escobar [82.937]; 11) Andy Pettitte [82.540]; 12) Justin Verlander [81.151]; 13) Curt Schilling [78.075]; 14) Mike Mussina [77.976]; 15) Felix Hernandez [76.786]; 16) Joe Blanton [75.595]; 17) Javier Vazquez [75.099]
Relief Pitchers: 1) J.J. Putz [96.041]; 2) Joe Nathan [91.552]; 3) Huston Street [89.077]; 4) Jonathan Papelbon [89.060]; 5) Francisco Rodriguez [88.618]; 6) Rafael Betancourt [87.416]; 7) Mariano Rivera [85.755]; 8 ) Scot Shields [84.553]; 9) Bobby Jenks [82.008]; 10) B.J. Ryan [81.654]; 11) Akinori Otsuka [79.215]; 12) Dan Wheeler [78.791]; 13) Pat Neshek [78.084]; 14) Joel Zumaya [76.776]; 15) Chris Ray [76.246]; 16) Joaquin Benoit [75.893]; 17) Fernando Rodney [75.716]; 18) Alan Embree [75.362]; 19) Scott Downs [74.196]; 20) George Sherrill [73.842]; 21) Justin Speier [72.923]; 22) Joakim Soria [72.853]; 23) Jeremy Accardo [72.782]; 24) Jamie Walker [72.393]; 25) Matt Guerrier [72.040]
Catchers: 1) Jorge Posada [90.756]; 2) Victor Martinez [88.655]; 3) Joe Mauer [87.395]; 4) Kenji Johjima [81.513]; 5) A.J. Pierzynski [78.151]; 6t) Ramon Hernandez [77.731]; 6t) Ivan Rodriguez [77.731]
1B/DH/OF: 1) David Ortiz [100.000]; 2) Vladimir Guerrero [95.063]; 3) Magglio Ordonez [94.937]; 4) Justin Morneau [92.222]; 5) Manny Ramirez [89.114]; 6) Paul Konerko [87.778]; 7) Bobby Abreu [87.468]; 8 ) Jim Thome [87.059]; 9) Raul Ibanez [84.557]; 10) Grady Sizemore [84.430]; 11) Travis Hafner [83.529]; 12) Alex Rios [82.278]; 13) Frank Thomas [81.176]; 14) Nick Markakis [80.506]; 15) Jermaine Dye [80.253]; 16) Michael Cuddyer [79.241]; 17) Kevin Youkilis [78.889]; 18) Ichiro Suzuki [78.861]; 19) Hideki Matsui [77.468]; 20t) Carl Crawford [77.215]; 20t) Torii Hunter [77.215]; 22) Nick Swisher [76.329]; 23) J.D. Drew [74.557]
2B/3B/SS: 1) Michael Young [89.286]; 2) Miguel Tejada [87.500]; 3) Robinson Cano [85.714]; 4) Derek Jeter [85.119]; 5) Mike Lowell [84.857]; 6) Alex Rodriguez [84.000]; 7) Placido Polanco [81.746]; 8 ) Brian Roberts [80.159]; 9) Orlando Cabrera [79.464]; 10) Jhonny Peralta [77.381]; 11) Adrian Beltre [76.000]; 12) Carlos Guillen [74.405]; 13) Troy Glaus [74.286]; 14) Melvin Mora [73.714]
National League
Starting Pitchers: 1) Brandon Webb [96.394]; 2) John Smoltz [95.994]; 3) Aaron Harang [95.433]; 4) Roy Oswalt [95.032]; 5) Carlos Zambrano [92.548]; 6) Jake Peavy [90.865]; 7) Brad Penny [89.423]; 8 ) Tim Hudson [83.654]; 9) Derek Lowe [82.933]; 10) Cole Hamels [82.692]; 11) Ted Lilly [81.490]; 12) Jeff Francis [80.929]; 13) Bronson Arroyo [80.849]; 14) Chris Young [80.128]; 15) Barry Zito [79.968]; 16) Tom Glavine [79.327]; 17) Greg Maddux [77.324]; 18) Doug Davis [73.798]; 19) Dontrelle Willis [72.997]; 20) Chuck James [71.955]
Relief Pitchers: 1) Takashi Saito [90.734]; 2) Billy Wagner [87.758]; 3) Matt Capps [86.556]; 4) Jonathan Broxton [86.031]; 5) Brian Fuentes [85.446]; 6) Bob Howry [84.150]; 7) Francisco Cordero [83.657]; 8 ) Trevor Hoffman [83.472]; 9) Rafael Soriano [83.133]; 10) Jon Rauch [83.040]; 11) Aaron Heilman [82.362]; 12) Chad Cordero [81.098]; 13) Russ Springer [80.851]; 14) Chad Qualls [78.893]; 15) Brad Lidge [78.600]; 16) Brett Myers [76.688]; 17) Pedro Feliciano [75.717]; 18) Scott Proctor [74.622]; 19) Manny Corpas [73.975]; 20) Scott Linebrink [72.834]; 21) Cla Meredith [72.186]; 22) Juan Cruz [71.600]; 23) Jose Valverde [71.076]; 24) Jason Isringhausen [71.014]; 25) Heath Bell [70.490]; 26) Kevin Gregg [70.429]; 27) Adam Wainwright [70.367]; 28) David Weathers [70.213]
Catchers: 1) Russell Martin [86.100]; 2) Brian McCann [82.625]; 3) Bengie Molina [77.413]; 4) Ronny Paulino [76.641]; 5) Josh Bard [75.869]; 6) Johnny Estrada [73.745]; 7) Chris Snyder [73.359]; 8 ) Michael Barrett [72.973]
1B/DH/OF: 1) Matt Holliday [97.079]; 2) Albert Pujols [96.667]; 3) Carlos Lee [90.337]; 4) Ryan Howard [88.667]; 5) Brad Hawpe [87.191]; 6) Carlos Beltran [85.393]; 7) Lance Berkman [84.000]; 8 ) Alfonso Soriano [83.371]; 9) Todd Helton [83.333]; 10) Mark Teixeira [82.000]; 11) Moises Alou [80.899]; 12) Aaron Rowand [80.449]; 13) Jason Bay [78.090]; 14) Adam Dunn [77.303]; 15t) Pat Burrell [76.404]; 15t) Josh Willingham [76.404]; 17) Barry Bonds [75.955]; 18) Brian Giles [73.258]; 19t) Milton Bradley [72.809]; 19t) Ken Griffey Jr. [72.809]; 21) Austin Kearns [72.135]; 22) Prince Fielder [72.000]; 23t) Adrian Gonzalez [71.333]; 23t) Derrek Lee [71.333];
2B/3B/SS: 1) Chase Utley [90.476]; 2) Jimmy Rollins [86.264]; 3) Chipper Jones [85.714]; 4t) Garrett Atkins [84.571]; 4t) Miguel Cabrera [84.571]; 4t) Aramis Ramirez [84.571]; 7) David Wright [84.000]; 8 ) Orlando Hudson [80.357]; 9) Edgar Renteria [79.670]; 10t) Hanley Ramirez [79.121]; 10t) Jose Reyes [79.121]; 12) Jeff Kent [78.571]; 13) Freddy Sanchez [77.381]; 14) Brandon Phillips [75.794]; 15) Dan Uggla [75.198]; 16) Ryan Zimmerman [72.571]; 17t) Mark DeRosa [72.222]; 17t) Tadahito Iguchi [72.222]
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