Weeks has been around so long that it's easy to forget that he's still only 27. So with all of that out of the way, I'd like to happily present to everyone the first portion of our list of the 50 Best Players in Baseball over the next five years, the players ranked No. Because our goal here isn't to rank the players based on their value relative to their salary, it's merely to highlight which players are projected to be the best in the game over the next five years completely independent of how much that's going to cost. A 7 WAR year from A-Rod that put the Yankees back $32M is the same as a 7 WAR season from Jason Heyward that costs Atlanta a mere $500K, this is purely looking at things from an on-field perspective. Unlike FanGraphs' Trade Value Series, which ranked players directly by value factoring in salary and contract status, these rankings are all about performance. So, if you need to directly reference anything about how we came up with a particular number, that post would probably be a good place to start.īut to make things clear again, this is what we're talking about, on a basic level.
Now, in case you missed it, Steve went through the methodology for how we came up with the projections yesterday, while pointing out a few of the caveats with the projections as well. Most of you guys are probably too old to have any idea what I'm talking about, but remember that old computer game Backyard Baseball? You know, the one with all the kids, and you would begin each game by choosing a roster from all of the kids sitting on the bleachers? Well, as Steve outlined yesterday, here at BtB we're going to pick a little team of our own, taking the best 50 players of the next five years, where the options on the bleachers aren't little Dante Robinson or speedy Pete Wheeler, but Hanley Ramirez, Justin Morneau and Roy Halladay, among others.
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