Saturday, January 8, 2011

The Mariners Franchise Using WAR

Earlier I posted an article comparing some of the best batters in Mariners franchise history. Using the WAR statistic was very fun and interesting for me so I decided to do more. I have put together graphs, facts, statistics and more regarding the WAR statistic in Mariners franchise history. I hope you guys find this interesting! For those not familiar with the WAR it stands for “Wins Above Replacement” and shows the overall value of a player. 

Each year there is an individual that had the highest WAR on the team in a single season. Last year it was Ichiro with a WAR of 4.8. I graphed the highest WAR player in each individual season for every season in Franchise History.



Using that data I found that the highest individual WAR in each season was on average about 5.776.

Here is the Top 5 highest WAR in a single season:

  1. 10.2; Ken Griffey Jr (1996)
  2. 9.6; Alex Rodriguez (2000)
  3. 9.4; Ken Griffey Jr (1997)
  4. 9.0; Ken Griffey Jr (1993)
  5. 8.4; Alex Rodriguez (1998)

·         The highest increase in the top single season WAR was from 1999 to 2000. It went from 5.4 by Edgar Martinez to 9.6 by Alex Rodriguez.

I also made another graph showing the Mariners total team WAR for each season



  • The Mariners total WAR over the history of the franchise is 679- an average of 19.971 per year

Let’s look at the Mariners top 5 highest total WAR seasons and where the team ended up finishing:

Top 5 highest War Franchise Season:
Rank
Year
WAR
Record
Playoffs
1.
2001
44.5
116-46
Yes
2.
1996
42.2
85-76
No
3.
1997
37.4
90-72
Yes
4.
2002
32.4
93-69
No
5.
2003
32.4
93-69
No


Here are some more “Top 5’s” and interesting facts:

Top 5 highest Cumulative WAR while playing with the Mariners franchise in history:
  1. Ken Griffey Jr: 72.5
  2. Edgar Martinez: 71.6
  3. Ichiro Suzuki: 50.7
  4. Alex Rodriguez: 36.8
  5. Jay Buhner: 26.3

Top 5 WAR seasons for Rookies (I considered a rookie season as more than 150 at-bats and they have not recorded that many at bats thus far in a season)
  1. Ichiro Suzuki: 6.1 in 2001
  2. Alvin Davis: 5.8 in 1984        
  3. Ruppert Jones: 3.7 in 1977
  4. Kenji Johjima: 3.3 in 2006
  5. Rich Amaral 2.9 in 1993

Another interesting stat:
·               Using the Mariners Average WAR per season (19.971) and the Mariners highest individual WAR average per year (5.776): the highest player WAR makes up an average of 28.9% of the teams overall WAR per year… if that makes sense. In other words the player with the best WAR in a season makes up about 28.9% of the teams overall WAR on average.

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