Jerry Grote catching, Orlando Cepeda at first base, Pete Rose at second base, Larry Brown at shortstop, Don Wert at third base, Rico Carty in left field, Willie Mays in center, and Rocky Colavito in right field, with Luis Tiant, Joey Jay, Denver Lemaster, Al McBean, & Bud Daley pitching, would have been a heck of a good team 60 years ago. Other than switch-hitter Rose, though, & Ed Kranepool, who couldn't have made the lineup, nobody hit left-handed.
I wonder what year had the highest WAR of players who died. Doing like what you did here, take the top player for each position that died in that particular year. And then tally up their career WAR. One of these days I'll learn some more R programming and I'll be able write up a query to do this.
Jerry Grote catching, Orlando Cepeda at first base, Pete Rose at second base, Larry Brown at shortstop, Don Wert at third base, Rico Carty in left field, Willie Mays in center, and Rocky Colavito in right field, with Luis Tiant, Joey Jay, Denver Lemaster, Al McBean, & Bud Daley pitching, would have been a heck of a good team 60 years ago. Other than switch-hitter Rose, though, & Ed Kranepool, who couldn't have made the lineup, nobody hit left-handed.
I wonder what year had the highest WAR of players who died. Doing like what you did here, take the top player for each position that died in that particular year. And then tally up their career WAR. One of these days I'll learn some more R programming and I'll be able write up a query to do this.