The Brent Morel Experiment: Replacing Baseball’s Worst Players

Baseball’s superstars are what make the game fun.  They are often credited for a team’s success and blamed for a loss, but the fact of the matter is that the best players have similar impact as the rest of the guys in the lineup and in their respective rotations.  Baseball is not the NBA wherein usage rates for the games’ best players frequently goes above 40%.  Michael Jordan and Lebron touch the ball on most of their teams possessions throughout a season, but Justin Verlander started just three more games than Brad Penny for the Tigers last year.  You see where I’m going here.  We know that the best players on a given team really help that team and WAR tells us just how much. For every Mike Trout, who has helped his team win games, there is a Jeff Francouer who has hurt his team.  So what would the standings look like if the worst player on every team were replaced by that mythical replacement player? So without further ado I give you the results of my Brent Morel Experiment.  It’...