Who carried the decade. Every season is scored against its own league with VAL, so a player is measured against the peers he actually faced, never against a different era's scoring environment.
1B · 10 seasons in the decade · best 1983 (17.9)
CF · 10 seasons in the decade · best 1983 (19.3)
RF · 10 seasons in the decade · best 1982 (17.5)
3B · 10 seasons in the decade · best 1980 (19.5)
RF · 10 seasons in the decade · best 1983 (16.9)
SS · 10 seasons in the decade · best 1982 (18.8)
LF · 10 seasons in the decade · best 1985 (17.1)
3B · 10 seasons in the decade · best 1985 (18.4)
RF · 9 seasons in the decade · best 1988 (17.9)
P · 10 seasons in the decade · best 1982 (14.9)
LF · 10 seasons in the decade · best 1983 (17.8)
RF · 10 seasons in the decade · best 1987 (16)
P · 10 seasons in the decade · best 1987 (15.4)
1B · 10 seasons in the decade · best 1982 (17.6)
DH · 10 seasons in the decade · best 1984 (15.6)
P · 10 seasons in the decade · best 1981 (13.8)
P · 10 seasons in the decade · best 1983 (15.1)
3B · 10 seasons in the decade · best 1983 (15.4)
SS · 10 seasons in the decade · best 1987 (16.4)
LF · 9 seasons in the decade · best 1987 (15)
1B · 10 seasons in the decade · best 1980 (15.7)
1B · 8 seasons in the decade · best 1984 (16.3)
DH · 10 seasons in the decade · best 1982 (15.1)
2B · 10 seasons in the decade · best 1989 (14.9)
3B · 8 seasons in the decade · best 1987 (16.6)
Decade VAL is the sum of a player's VAL across the decade's seasons. How VAL works.
| # | Player | Season | VAL |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | José Canseco | 1988 | 21.2 |
| 2 | Kevin Mitchell | 1989 | 20.2 |
| 3 | Howard Johnson | 1989 | 19.8 |
| 4 | Mike Schmidt | 1980 | 19.5 |
| 5 | Dale Murphy | 1983 | 19.3 |
| 6 | Robin Yount | 1982 | 18.8 |
| 7 | Darryl Strawberry | 1988 | 18.7 |
| 8 | George Brett | 1985 | 18.4 |
| 9 | Will Clark | 1989 | 18.2 |
| 10 | Reggie Jackson | 1980 | 18.1 |
VAL player-seasons in the corpus for each year of the decade.