Top Ten Years Position Player - 1950s

With all these great players in the most dominant hitting decade of them all, what is Al Rosen doing at the top of the list of best seasons of the 1950s? Geez, among the 27 players who had seasons above the 32.000 PEVA level from 1950 to 1959, how could Al top Mantle, Aaron, Mathews, and Mays? Well, the Cleveland Indians star had a fantastic year in 1953. Beyond the stats listed below, he also scored 115 runs, had 85 walks and only 48 strikeouts. That's 48 strikeouts for a player with 43 homers, folks. Tell that to Ryan Howard. Then there's an OPS of 1.035, and the top rated Field Value for a 3B that year at 1.70. Now he wasn't dominant above the fold compared to the average in those categories as a Ruth, Gehrig, or Bonds in the Top Ten of All-Time Seasons, but his PEVA of 48.401 was good enough to rank #17 All-Time.

But how did he compare to those other greats of the 1950s. Let's take the top three and compare their interval PEVA factors. Although Mantle exceeded Rosen in IPR-SLG, with a dominant 2.07 factor, Mantle's durability factors kept his overall PEVA just slightly below Rosen. With Aaron's 1959 season, while his durability factors were even higher than Rosen's during Aaron's 1959 season, his FV and IPR-OBP factors pulled the overall PEVA into third place. D=Durability (G, PA); RPR (Run Production); FV (Field Value); IPR (Independent Production SLG, OBP)

D/ARank Player ID Name First Year Team Lg HR RBI AVG Age PEVA-B
1 17 rosenal01 Rosen Al 1953 CLE AL 43 145 0.336 29 48.401
2 18 mantlmi01 Mantle Mickey 1956 NYA AL 52 130 0.353 25 47.236
3 45 aaronha01 Aaron Hank 1959 ML1 NL 39 123 0.355 25 41.920
4 47 matheed01 Mathews Eddie 1953 ML1 NL 47 135 0.302 22 41.677
5 57 mantlmi01 Mantle Mickey 1957 NYA AL 34 94 0.365 26 40.637
6 58 musiast01 Musial Stan 1953 SLN NL 30 113 0.337 33 40.502
7 68 mayswi01 Mays Willie 1955 NY1 NL 51 127 0.319 24 39.404
8 74 snidedu01 Snider Duke 1953 BRO NL 42 126 0.336 27 38.655
9 76 matheed01 Mathews Eddie 1959 ML1 NL 46 114 0.306 28 38.592
10 78 camparo01 Campanella Roy 1953 BRO NL 41 142 0.312 32 38.348