Value for the Dollar in 2012

Tuesday, October 16 2012 @ 12:00 PM EDT

Well, that was a tough year. A big question now is who was worth the money and who wasn't.

Rather than do this by 'player A sucks, he wasn't worth it' I'll go by a comparison of salary to FanGraphs value. Not perfect, but at least it is objective and gives an idea, although it sure jumps a few guys due to their defense. In order of most valuable to least. Numbers in (brackets) indicate a negative value (ie: it should be easy to find someone else to do a better job).

Player	Paid	Value Provided	Spread
Edwin Encarnacion	$3.50	$19.90	$16.40
Jose Bautista	$14.00	$14.50	$0.50
Brett Lawrie	$0.48	$13.90	$13.42
Yunel Escobar	$5.00	$8.80	$3.80
Colby Rasmus	$2.70	$6.00	$3.30
J.P. Arencibia	$0.49	$5.30	$4.81
Jeff Mathis	$1.50	$4.00	$2.50
Kelly Johnson	$6.38	$3.10	($3.28)
Rajai Davis	$2.75	$3.00	$0.25
Anthony Gose	$0.48	$2.20	$1.72
Adam Lind	$5.00	$0.70	($4.30)
Adeiny Hechavarria	$1.75	$0.50	($1.25)
David Cooper	$0.48	($0.10)	($0.58)
Yan Gomes	$0.48	($0.20)	($0.68)
Moises Sierra	$0.48	($1.70)	($2.18)
Eric Thames	$0.48	($2.50)	($2.98)
Omar Vizquel	$0.75	($2.90)	($3.65)
Pitchers	Paid	Value Provided	Spread
Brandon Morrow	$4.00	$10.90	$6.90
Casey Janssen	$2.00	$5.30	$3.30
J.A. Happ	$2.35	$5.00	$2.65
Darren Oliver	$4.00	$4.80	$0.80
Aaron Loup	$0.48	$4.10	$3.62
Steve Delabar	$0.48	$2.80	$2.32
Carlos Villanueva	$2.28	$2.70	$0.42
Drew Hutchison	$0.50	$2.60	$2.10
Ricky Romero	$5.00	$2.30	($2.70)
Henderson Alvarez	$0.48	$2.10	$1.62
Luis Perez	$0.49	$1.90	$1.41
Brandon Lyon	$5.50	$1.90	($3.60)
Jason Frasor	$3.50	$0.90	($2.60)
Brett Cecil	$0.50	$0.60	$0.10
Chad Beck	$0.50	($0.10)	($0.60)
Chad Jenkins	$0.50	($0.50)	($1.00)
Brad Lincoln	$0.50	($0.60)	($1.10)
Kyle Drabek	$0.49	($0.70)	($1.19)
Sergio Santos	$1.00	($0.80)	($1.80)
Jesse Chavez	$0.50	($1.00)	($1.50)
Andrew Carpenter	$0.50	($1.20)	($1.70)
Aaron Laffey	$0.80	($1.20)	($2.00)
Evan Crawford	$0.50	($1.30)	($1.80)
Francisco Cordero	$4.50	($2.00)	($6.50)
Joel Carreno	$0.48	($2.30)	($2.78)

An * indicates only a partial year here, salary is for full season but value is just as a Blue Jay.

Interesting to see 4 guys worth $10 mil plus, especially considering time lost for Bautista & Morrow and how Lawrie has a ton of the value via defense. Other surprises were Escobar at just shy of $9 mil (defense again), Mathis at $4 mil (maybe it is a good contract), Gose at $2.2 mil (wow, his defense is that good?), Cooper being negative value, and Casey Janssen being the 2nd most valuable pitcher - never good for a reliever to be worth that much. JA Happ being at $5 mil was a shocker that I had to check a few times.

Clearly Lind/Cooper is not a valuable combo with a net worth of $600k. Davis at $3 mil for 2013 looks dead on, and if Gose is really worth that much in his limited time here then give the kid a spot everyday in 2013.

So, lets see some Jays discussion about who is worth keeping and not.

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