Answers from yesterday’s trivia post – Baseball Analytics (Facebook group):
https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/singleseasonleaders
Hardball Retrospective Rosters – 1996 Win Shares Leaders
Based on research for “Hardball Retrospective”, “Hardball Retroactive” and “Hardball Architects” –
https://www.amazon.com/kindle-dbs/entity/author/B00S4SXV8S
https://play.google.com/store/books/author?id=Derek+Bain
Identify the 1996 Athletics leaders in total Win Shares based on the Hardball Retrospective “Original” rosters. Each player is listed as a member of the “original” team that he signed his first professional contract with. Ken Griffey Jr. would be a member of the Mariners for the duration of his career in this scenario while Mike Piazza is considered a member of the Dodgers.
| 1996 | Mark McGwire | 28.4 |
| 1996 | Scott Brosius | 18.6 |
| 1996 | Terry Steinbach | 17.0 |
| 1996 | Rickey Henderson | 17.0 |
| 1996 | Jose Canseco | 15.4 |
| 1996 | Jason Giambi | 15.2 |
| 1996 | Kevin Tapani | 11.7 |
| 1996 | Walt Weiss | 11.2 |
| 1996 | Ernie Young | 10.7 |
| 1996 | Mickey Tettleton | 10.4 |
Correctly answered by Rich Gordon, Lanny Little, Matthew Bloss, Brian Bohem, Doug Snyder Sr., Michael Danes, Neil Bush, Dave Shaw, Curtis Favre and Rod Humphrey
