My new favorite baseball stat: DPRP

I knew my previous post about Baseball Hacks would hit with somebody, and it did. Mike Lawler dove right in and came up with a stat that I think is interesting as hell. Without further ado, I give you Dollars Per Run Produced.

Mike used 2005 season stats to calculate runs produced, then divided by last year's salary paid to that player to find the best and worst values last season. A minimum of 200 at bats was used to screen out players with injuries, etc.

Worst Value

Team	LastName	FirstName	Runs Prod.	DPRP
BAL	Sosa	Sammy	41.98	404969.01
WAS	Wilson	Preston	35.28	354287.79
SEA	Boone	Bret	30.76	292610.84
SDN	Nevin	Phil	33.97	283310.44
NYN	Piazza	Mike	57.81	277988.86
NYN	Matsui	Kazuo	27.43	256404.59
CHN	Garciaparra	Nomar	33.09	249313.19
SLN	Walker	Larry	58.58	216212.77
NYA	Williams	Bernie	57.57	214650.10

Best Value

Team	LastName	FirstName	Runs Prod.	DPRP
PIT	Bay	Jason	134.19	2645.44
FLO	Cabrera	Miguel	133.13	2779.27
NYN	Wright	David	115.38	2795.22
CLE	Sizemore	Grady	106.17	2998.01
PHI	Utley	Chase	108.68	3174.51
CLE	Hafner	Travis	116.11	3250.32
CLE	Peralta	Jhonny	95.57	3313.82
TBA	Cantu	Jorge	91.46	3464.95
BAL	Roberts	Brian	111.83	3487.55
TBA	Crawford	Carl	99.47	3719.85
CLE	Martinez	Victor	98.03	3795.67
CLE	Crisp	Coco	96.04	3799.55

Not a lot of surprises in the worst values list, with the king of all flops Sammy Sosa leading the way. Glad to see Mike Piazza put in an appearence as well. Time to retire Bernie.

One the flip side, in the best values category, you'll see 5 Indians in the list. Something to fret over Sox fans?