Image by Keith Allison via Flickr
Currently in the MLB, the average player value, per win, is about $4.5 million. So, if a player’s WAR (Wins Above Replacement) in a season was 2.0, that player would have been worth about $9 million. Naturally, there are going to be a lot of players getting paid much more than they’re worth, like, say, Vernon Wells, and there are also going to be plenty of players providing lots of cheap wins. Obviously, as a GM, if you’re able to find those types of players, budget becomes less of an issue, and you field a better team.
So, here are some of the players that really gave their respective teams more for their money in 2009:
Ben Zobrist: Zobrist was the biggest bargain of the season, by far. He had the highest WAR in all of baseball at 8.5 ($38.2 million value), and he only earned a measly $415,900. For reference, you can compare that to Vernon Wells, who was worth -0.1 wins this year (-$200,000 value), and got paid almost $5 ...
Original Story:
