The 2000s were a hell of a decade for baseball.
We saw home run power, the walk become en vogue, the Red Sox win as many World Series as the Yankees, and the statistical revolution take over almost all MLB front offices.
When trying to craft an all-decade team, a number of considerations come up:
How well did a player play during his peak years? How well did he play in total? Is it fair to reward a player who accumulated 40 or so wins above replacement in a 2000-09 stretch, instead of one who reached, let us say, 37 from 2004-09? What about a star player who split time between two positions?
As best as I can, here is my all-decade team:
Catcher: Joe Mauer
Very easily could have been Jorge Posada. After all, Posada went .283/.386/.492 in the 2000s, good for a 129 OPS+, not to mention ...
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