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.
TWP · 7 seasons in the decade · best 2024 (23.5)
RF · 6 seasons in the decade · best 2022 (23.5)
LF · 7 seasons in the decade · best 2024 (20.4)
1B · 7 seasons in the decade · best 2023 (18)
DH · 7 seasons in the decade · best 2025 (18.7)
1B · 7 seasons in the decade · best 2022 (17.3)
3B · 7 seasons in the decade · best 2024 (18.5)
1B · 7 seasons in the decade · best 2023 (19.9)
1B · 7 seasons in the decade · best 2021 (15.8)
1B · 7 seasons in the decade · best 2021 (17.6)
1B · 7 seasons in the decade · best 2021 (18.9)
3B · 7 seasons in the decade · best 2022 (17.4)
SS · 7 seasons in the decade · best 2023 (19.1)
DH · 6 seasons in the decade · best 2026 (20.1)
P · 7 seasons in the decade · best 2026 (16.4)
P · 7 seasons in the decade · best 2024 (15.2)
SS · 7 seasons in the decade · best 2021 (16.5)
RF · 7 seasons in the decade · best 2023 (15.6)
SS · 7 seasons in the decade · best 2024 (16.7)
P · 7 seasons in the decade · best 2025 (13.5)
LF · 7 seasons in the decade · best 2021 (15.3)
1B · 7 seasons in the decade · best 2022 (19.8)
LF · 6 seasons in the decade · best 2026 (15.9)
DH · 7 seasons in the decade · best 2025 (17.2)
2B · 7 seasons in the decade · best 2022 (16)
Decade VAL is the sum of a player's VAL across the decade's seasons. How VAL works.
| # | Player | Season | VAL |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Aaron Judge | 2022 | 23.5 |
| 2 | Shohei Ohtani | 2024 | 23.5 |
| 3 | Aaron Judge | 2024 | 23.3 |
| 4 | Aaron Judge | 2025 | 22.8 |
| 5 | Shohei Ohtani | 2025 | 21 |
| 6 | Ronald Acuña Jr. | 2023 | 20.9 |
| 7 | Juan Soto | 2024 | 20.4 |
| 8 | Yordan Alvarez | 2026 | 20.1 |
| 9 | Matt Olson | 2023 | 19.9 |
| 10 | Bobby Witt Jr. | 2024 | 19.9 |
VAL player-seasons in the corpus for each year of the decade — no rated seasons for 2027, 2028, 2029, so the ranking covers the rest of the decade only.