Answers from yesterday’s trivia post – Baseball Analytics (Facebook group):
https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/singleseasonleaders
Hardball Retrospective Rosters – 1997 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 1997 Brewers 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.
| 1997 | Gary Sheffield | 22.4 |
| 1997 | Jeff Cirillo | 20.0 |
| 1997 | Doug Jones | 19.5 |
| 1997 | B.J. Surhoff | 18.2 |
| 1997 | Bill Spiers | 14.8 |
| 1997 | Dave Nilsson | 14.1 |
| 1997 | Troy O’Leary | 13.5 |
| 1997 | Darryl Hamilton | 12.6 |
| 1997 | Paul Molitor | 12.5 |
| 1997 | Mark Loretta | 11.5 |
Correctly answered by Lanny Little, Matthew Bloss, Jan Insinga, Doug Snyder Sr., Michael McConchie, Erin Underwood, Brent Carroll, Neil Bush, Tom Siegler, Dave Shaw, Rod Humphrey, T.J. Dado and Michael J. Keenan
