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Hall-of-Famers as Seen Through Player Won-Lost Records: Alan Trammell

Alan Trammell was elected to the Hall of Fame by the Modern Era Veterans' Committee in 2018.

Five highlights of Alan Trammell's career:

Alan Trammell and Lou Whitaker made their major-league debuts together in the second game of a doubleheader on September 9, 1977. Whitaker and Trammell would go on to play an American League record 1,918 games together.

Alan Trammell was named to six All-Star teams in his career, won four Gold Gloves, and won three Silver Sluggers. He batted .300 or better seven times, scored 100 runs in a season three times, and drove in 100 runs once.

Alan Trammell was named MVP of the 1984 World Series, in which he batted .450/.500/.800 with 2 home runs, 6 RBI, and 5 runs scored (in five games).

In 1987, Trammell batted .343/.402/.551 with 28 home runs, 21 stolen bases (with only 2 caught stealings), 109 runs scored and 105 RBI. Trammell is the only player to play a majority of his games at shortstop in a season and bat better than .340/.400/.550 with at least 20 stolen bases and at least 20 home runs.

Alan Trammell singled to center field in his first major-league plate appearance, one of two hits in his first major-league game. Alan Trammell also singled to center field in his final major-league plate appearance, on September 29, 1996, one of two hits in his final major-league game.

The first two tables below present Alan Trammell's career as measured by Player won-lost records, in and out of context.

Season	Team	Age	Games	pWins	pLosses	pWORL	pWOPA

Basic Player Won-Lost Records
						Value Decomposition
1977	DET	19	19	0.8	1.3	-0.4	-0.5
1978	DET	20	139	14.7	14.1	3.0	1.6
1979	DET	21	142	13.8	13.8	2.3	1.0
1980	DET	22	146	18.9	16.8	5.2	3.5
1981	DET	23	105	13.8	12.3	3.8	2.5
1982	DET	24	157	17.0	15.2	4.3	2.8
1983	DET	25	142	18.6	16.3	5.0	3.4
1984	DET	26	139	20.0	15.2	7.6	5.8
1985	DET	27	149	17.9	19.8	1.4	-0.4
1986	DET	28	151	19.5	17.7	4.8	3.0
1987	DET	29	151	23.1	16.0	10.0	8.2
1988	DET	30	128	20.9	14.9	8.8	7.0
1989	DET	31	121	14.7	14.8	2.2	0.8
1990	DET	32	146	19.7	17.1	5.5	3.7
1991	DET	33	100	13.2	12.5	2.7	1.4
1992	DET	34	29	3.9	3.6	0.9	0.5
1993	DET	35	112	13.4	11.4	3.6	2.4
1994	DET	36	76	7.1	10.1	-1.5	-2.4
1995	DET	37	74	6.7	7.6	0.4	-0.4
1996	DET	38	66	4.1	7.4	-2.3	-2.9
			------	------	------	------	------
CAREER (reg. season)			2,292	281.6	257.9	67.2	41.2
			------	------	------	------	------
PostSeason (career)			13	2.2	1.5	1.0	0.9
			------	------	------	------	------
COMBINED			2,305	283.8	259.4	68.3	42.1

Season	Team	Age	Games	eWins	eLosses	eWORL	eWOPA

Expected Player Won-Lost Records
						Value Decomposition
1977	DET	19	19	0.8	1.3	-0.3	-0.4
1978	DET	20	139	14.5	14.2	2.8	1.4
1979	DET	21	142	13.5	14.2	1.7	0.4
1980	DET	22	146	18.9	16.8	5.1	3.4
1981	DET	23	105	13.1	13.0	2.5	1.2
1982	DET	24	157	16.7	15.5	3.9	2.3
1983	DET	25	142	18.8	16.0	5.5	3.9
1984	DET	26	139	18.7	16.5	5.2	3.5
1985	DET	27	149	18.6	19.0	2.8	1.0
1986	DET	28	151	20.0	17.2	5.7	4.0
1987	DET	29	151	22.2	16.9	8.2	6.4
1988	DET	30	128	19.7	16.1	6.4	4.6
1989	DET	31	121	15.1	14.3	3.1	1.7
1990	DET	32	146	19.8	17.1	5.6	3.9
1991	DET	33	100	13.3	12.4	2.8	1.5
1992	DET	34	29	3.8	3.7	0.6	0.3
1993	DET	35	112	13.0	11.8	3.1	1.9
1994	DET	36	76	8.2	8.9	0.7	-0.2
1995	DET	37	74	6.9	7.4	0.7	-0.0
1996	DET	38	66	4.9	6.6	-0.8	-1.4
			------	------	------	------	------
CAREER (reg. season)			2,292	280.5	258.9	65.4	39.4
			------	------	------	------	------
PostSeason (career)			13	2.0	1.7	0.6	0.4
			------	------	------	------	------
COMBINED			2,305	282.6	260.6	66.0	39.8

The next table shows the top 10 shortstops ranked by career eWins over positional average earned as a shortstop, among all players for whom I have calculated Player won-lost records.

Top 10 Shortstops
(Career, net wins)

		eWins	eLosses	eWinPct	eWOPA
1	Cal Ripken	306.7	278.2	0.524	47.3
2	Arky Vaughan	231.6	192.6	0.546	44.3
3	Alex Rodriguez	179.5	144.4	0.554	43.1
4	Barry Larkin	281.8	252.6	0.527	38.8
5	Pee Wee Reese	271.8	241.6	0.529	38.2
6	Alan Trammell	266.5	247.6	0.518	36.5
7	Joe Cronin	266.8	238.1	0.528	36.2
8	Ernie Banks	167.2	137.3	0.549	35.2
9	Derek Jeter	347.4	330.5	0.512	34.5
10	Lou Boudreau	215.6	188.0	0.534	33.6

Alan Trammell was one of the top ten shortstops of the past 100 years. Moreover, Alan Trammell was uniformly excellent. The next two tables show the top 10 shortstops as measured by net fielding wins and by offensive wins over positional average (since 1916).

Top 10 Fielding Shortstops
(Career, net wins)

		eWins	eLosses	eWinPct	eWOPA
1	Ozzie Smith	116.5	102.1	0.533	14.5
2	Lou Boudreau	73.9	62.4	0.542	11.4
3	Pee Wee Reese	86.9	75.5	0.535	11.4
4	Mark Belanger	78.3	68.0	0.535	10.2
5	Cal Ripken	94.4	86.2	0.523	8.2
6	Andrelton Simmons	40.8	34.2	0.544	6.6
7	Alan Trammell	83.8	77.3	0.520	6.5
8	Tim Foli	66.7	60.3	0.525	6.5
9	Rabbit Maranville	74.9	68.8	0.521	6.0
10	Dave Concepcion	91.8	85.8	0.517	6.0

Top 10 Shortstops, Offense only
(Career, net wins)

		eWins	eLosses	eWinPct	eWOPA
1	Derek Jeter	256.4	229.4	0.528	44.6
2	Arky Vaughan	157.7	119.7	0.569	43.4
3	Alex Rodriguez	131.9	96.9	0.576	43.0
4	Cal Ripken	212.3	192.0	0.525	39.1
5	Barry Larkin	199.4	171.4	0.538	37.6
6	Vern Stephens	142.8	113.5	0.557	34.4
7	Joe Cronin	180.0	153.1	0.540	34.3
8	Ernie Banks	118.9	91.4	0.565	32.8
9	Luke Appling	203.6	181.3	0.529	30.3
10	Alan Trammell	182.7	170.4	0.518	30.0

Alan Trammell was one of the top 10 defensive shortstops (since 1916) as measured by Player won-lost records and one of the top 10 offensive shortstops. Only one player ranks ahead of Trammell on both tables: Cal Ripken.

And just in case you're not convinced, here's an updated version of a table from the first article I wrote about Alan Trammell (when he appeared on the 2013 Hall-of-Fame ballot).

		Top 10 Players, pWins over Positional Average (pWOPA) (1980 - 1989)
		pWins	pLosses	pWOPA	pWORL
1	Rickey Henderson	213.0	165.9	40.2	58.4
2	Alan Trammell	184.2	159.0	36.7	53.2
3	Mike Schmidt	187.9	145.9	36.1	52.0
4	Robin Yount	202.1	169.6	35.9	53.9
5	Darryl Strawberry	147.2	105.4	34.4	46.4
6	Lou Whitaker	183.6	157.7	32.1	48.4
7	Dwight Evans	201.2	162.0	31.6	49.3
8	Cal Ripken	179.5	158.8	31.1	47.1
9	Ozzie Smith	198.6	176.9	30.4	48.3
10	George Brett	162.4	128.5	30.1	44.2

That, ladies and gentlemen, is a Hall-of-Fame resume.

Article last updated: September 20, 2019

All articles are written so that they pull data directly from the most recent version of the Player won-lost database. Hence, any numbers cited within these articles should automatically incorporate the most recent update to Player won-lost records. In some cases, however, the accompanying text may have been written based on previous versions of Player won-lost records. I apologize if this results in non-sensical text in any cases.

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