It’s early, and Baseball Prospectus isn’t even issuing WARP for pitchers yet, but with about 13% of the season in the books, let’s revisit the value survey!
Right out of the gate, the Chicago White Sox have six position players boasting positive surplus values (or SV, which is WAR translated into a dollar value offset by salary) and seven pitchers. That’s 13 positive values out of 31 players total.
[This year, the true WAR dollar value went up from just less than $4 million, to $4,037,327.24, reflecting a slight nudge northward for MLB salaries on the whole.