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Elias Rankings Update
At the end of each season, The Elias Sports Bureau ranks all MLB players numerically based on a bunch of stats. Every player is categorized in one of five position groups and by league. The rankings cover a two-year time period. They are used to determine whether free agents are Type A, Type B, or neither. If you'd like a reminder on how draft pick compensation works, read up here.
Eddie Bajek of Detroit Tigers Thoughts reverse-engineered the Elias Rankings last year. Eddie's incredible work was made possible in large part due to information provided by ESPN's Keith Law. Eddie is now providing the rankings exclusively to MLB Trade Rumors. Today's snapshot covers the beginning of the 2008 season through September 27th, 2009. The rankings will change over the remainder of the season.
View the latest Elias Rankings below.
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Broken system. Value assessment is both horribly skewed and punitive.
Posted by: JLHC | September 28, 2009 at 07:37 PM
I think it's sort of odd that Max Scherzer is listed as a reliever, considering he hasn't made one single relief appearance this year. And Clay Zavada and Esmerling Vasquez are both listed as starters, when neither made a start. Just glancing, those are the ones I noticed.
Posted by: jdub | September 28, 2009 at 08:48 PM
Bengie is gonna be a Type A?
That sucks, Sabean might offer him arb for other reasons other than the picks.
Posted by: 661dodgerblue | September 28, 2009 at 09:45 PM
Any chance we can get a filter on these things by team?
Posted by: GScott | September 29, 2009 at 12:27 AM
Yeah, the system has Randy Wells as a reliever as well, just off the top of my head.
The draft pick compensation system is totally broken, and the system used to evaluate and determine Type A/B status is absolutely a big part of that.
Like, how the hell is Orlando Cabrera a Type A but Figgins is a Type B? They have such brilliant statistical work out there to determine value, but MLB chooses to use this bullshit?
Posted by: scribbletone | September 29, 2009 at 09:50 AM
Look where Ryan Howard is and tell me its not a ridiculous system. Would anyone seriously rather have Joey Votto? Or even any one of Phillies outfielders ahead of him? Lol.
Posted by: EvenSteven | September 29, 2009 at 10:18 AM
And why is Max Scherzer in with the Relief Pitchers??? lolololol
Posted by: qudjy1 | September 29, 2009 at 11:22 AM
Figgins - Type B?
Posted by: ClutchHomer | September 29, 2009 at 01:26 PM
I wish we could just get these in a straight spreadsheet instead of relying on the google docs thing to reload. I'm not able to see this at all.
Posted by: IowaCubs | September 29, 2009 at 01:33 PM
Yeah, the system has Randy Wells as a reliever as well, just off the top of my head.
The draft pick compensation system is totally broken, and the system used to evaluate and determine Type A/B status is absolutely a big part of that.
Like, how the hell is Orlando Cabrera a Type A but Figgins is a Type B? They have such brilliant statistical work out there to determine value, but MLB chooses to use this bullshit?
Posted by: scribbletone | September 29, 2009 at 09:50 AM"
You know that would make too much sense.
Posted by: 661dodgerblue | September 29, 2009 at 02:05 PM
There's something amiss with NL SP/RP classification. I'll look into it and repost today.
Sorry.
Posted by: ebajek85 | September 29, 2009 at 04:15 PM
EvenStephen, I would rather have Votto, Werth, and Victorino than the overrated Howard.
Posted by: ebajek85 | September 29, 2009 at 04:17 PM
How is Aaron Hill a Type B? Is his defense that bad? I mean he is hitting 100/30/100/.280 or something close to that. At 2B, that's amazing!
Posted by: Kevinfoley46 | September 29, 2009 at 07:14 PM