Thursday, June 27, 2024

Yankees top 50 career dWAR (defensive Wins Above Replacement).

Photo of Phil Rizzuto

Phil Rizzuto

Position: Shortstop

Bats: Right  •  Throws: Right

5-6150lb (168cm, 68kg)

Born: September 251917 in Brooklyn, NY us

Died: August 132007 (Aged 89-322d) in West Orange, NJ

 



https://www.baseball-reference.com/teams/NYY/leaders_bat_50.shtml

Defensive WAR †
1.Phil Rizzuto23.0
2.Willie Randolph17.0
3.Roger Peckinpaugh16.1
4.Clete Boyer15.5
5.Joe Gordon15.0

Click the link above and cruise down to see the entire list of 50. No, you won't find Derek Jeter but you will find second year shortstop Anthony Volpe.

Rizzuto is a surprise because his career is relatively short and WAR, dWAR, ... are totals. Longer careers should produce higher values.

I wanted more context, so I ran an ad hoc query for batting. There was none for fielding.

I randomly picked Rfield to add some context, along with general stats like Games and Plate Appearances.

Rfield: Runs from fielding

Three of the top 50 Yankees in career dWAR had negative Rfield so I had to make that criteria a negative number: -12. That got the top 50 in career dWAR.

For combined seasons, Playing for NYY, in the regular season, requiring Fielding Runs (Rfield) >= -12 and Defensive WAR (dWAR) >= 2.9, sorted by descending Defensive WAR (dWAR).

https://stathead.com/tiny/zIK5Q

You can click on a field heading to sort: once for descending, again for ascending, then back and forth.

Rfield:

four in triple figures:
Brett Gardner 138
Clete Boyer 123
Phil Rizzuto 117
Joe Gordon 103

Rizzuto (SS) and Gordon (2B) were teammates.

three negative:
Tony Lazzeri -2
DiDi Gregorius -4
Gene Michael -12

PA:

top 3:
Berra
DiMaggio
Randolph

bottom 3:
Gallego
Volpe
Roxy Walters

And just for the heck of it:

Home Runs (12 >=100) :
DiMaggio 361
Berra 358
Judge 287
Nettles 250

OPS+ (23 >=100):
Judge 168
DiMaggio 155
Henderson 135
Dickey 125

Oh, Derek Jeter:

Plate Appearances
1.Derek Jeter12602
2.Mickey Mantle9910
3.Lou Gehrig9665
4.Babe Ruth9203
5.Bernie Williams9053
6.Yogi Berra8355
7.Roy White7736
8.Don Mattingly7722
9.Joe DiMaggio7672
10.Willie Randolph7465

But:

WAR 71.3
dWAR -9.4
Rfield -253


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