It’s a brand new month, however a little bit of outdated enterprise stays.
I began counting down my list of baseball’s top 100 players on November 7, unveiling successive teams of 10 batters and pitchers every Tuesday and Friday. That introduced us to thirty first place earlier than the calendar flipped to December.
We’re left with three last installments — as we speak, subsequent Tuesday, and per week from as we speak.
The rankings are decided by general base values (OBV), a relative measure of the excess bases reached by a given hitter (or saved by a selected pitcher) compared to the best way that a median huge leaguer would have carried out underneath the identical circumstances.
Click here for a detailed explanation of OBV, together with a quick dialogue of BPO, the issue that I exploit to interrupt any ties within the standings.
As we speak’s gamers run from thirtieth to twenty first place within the general rankings, based mostly on their 2023 performances:
Scroll under to see temporary profiles of those 10 honorees. In the event you’d prefer to look again at earlier installments of this sequence, observe these hyperlinks: 91-100,81-90,71-80,61-70, 51-60,41-50, and 31-40.
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OBV: 68
Major place: SS
BPO (batting): .840
BA: .276
Different batting stats: PA 694, HR 30, RBI 96
Notes: Scouts predicted stardom for Witt from the second he was picked second within the 2019 novice draft. He put reality to their phrases in 2023, main the American League in triples (11), whereas ending third in hits (177), seventh in runs scored (97), and tenth in RBIs (96).
OBV: 69
Major place: 2B
BPO (batting): .969
BA: .311
Different batting stats: PA 410, HR 17, RBI 51
Notes: Altuve’s season began late. A thumb damage saved him on the sidelines till mid-Could, but he nonetheless cracked the highest 30 in OBV. His batting common crested above .300 for the seventh time in his 13-year profession, and he once more reached double digits in each homers (17) and stolen bases (14).
OBV: 70
Major place: SS
BPO (batting): .853
BA: .254
Different batting stats: PA 687, HR 31, RBI 98
Notes: Lindor positioned ninth within the balloting for the Nationwide League’s Most Invaluable Participant Award in 2023, a season during which he ranked seventh in each runs scored (108) and stolen bases (31). His slugging common of .470 was his highest in his three seasons in New York.
OBV: 71
Major place: P
BPO (pitching): .581
ERA: 3.35
Different pitching stats: IP 190.2, W-L 13-10, SO 172
Notes: Kirby adopted up his promising rookie season — 8-5 with a 3.39 ERA in 2022 — with an excellent stronger sophomore yr. He labored 190.2 innings for Seattle, up from 130 within the prior season. His management was excellent, as evidenced by his ratio of 9.05 strikeouts per stroll.
OBV: 75
Major place: LF
BPO (batting): .860
BA: .197
Different batting stats: PA 720, HR 47, RBI 104
Notes: Sure, his batting common was horrible. No on a regular basis participant within the majors posted a BA worse than Schwarber’s .197. But he remained a productive member of Philadephia’s batting order, smashing 47 homers (second within the NL) and driving dwelling 104 runs (ninth).
OBV: 75
Major place: 3B
BPO (batting): .867
BA: .282
Different batting stats: PA 691, HR 24, RBI 80
Notes: No person has been extra reliable than Ramirez, who has launched at the least 23 homers and pushed dwelling at the least 80 runs for Cleveland in each full season since 2017. He completed tenth within the American League’s MVP race in 2023, marking his fourth straight yr within the high 10.
OBV: 78
Major place: CF
BPO (batting): .914
BA: .307
Different batting stats: PA 556, HR 26, RBI 97
Notes: There have been two Bellingers — a winner of Rookie of the 12 months (2017) and MVP (2019) awards, and a nonentity who batted simply .203 from 2020 by means of 2022. The unique model returned in 2023, as Bellinger led Chicago in homers (26), RBIs (97), and batting common (.307).
OBV: 79
Major place: DH
BPO (batting): .904
BA: .274
Different batting stats: PA 592, HR 40, RBI 100
Notes: Atlanta followers started to query their membership’s 2020 acquisition of Ozuna as a free agent after he batted .213 in 2021 and .226 the next yr. However he proved his worth in 2023, breaking out with the good spherical numbers of 40 dwelling runs (fifth within the NL) and 100 runs batted in.
OBV: 80
Major place: P
BPO (pitching): .577
ERA: 3.47
Different pitching stats: IP 210.0, W-L 17-9, SO 220
Notes: Gallen cemented himself in 2023’s Cy Younger Award race by ending second within the Nationwide League in wins (17), second in innings (210), and third in strikeouts (220). He completed third in voting for the Cy, however his best achievement was a key position in Arizona’s advance to the World Sequence.
OBV: 84
Major place: P
BPO (pitching): .548
ERA: 3.50
Different pitching stats: IP 177.2, W-L 16-8, SO 186
Notes: Eflin departed Philadelphia as a free agent after seven seasons. His first yr with Tampa Bay exceeded something he had achieved with the Phillies. He led the American League in wins (16), ranked eighth in ERA (3.50), and completed tenth in strikeouts (186).
