Major League Equivalents
Baseball HQ's Major League Equivalents (MLE) charts provide stats and sabermetric gauges for virtually all of last season's Triple-A and Double-A batters and pitchers. These are downloadable files that you can use for your own analyses in Excel, Access or similar program.
Sample Files
SAMPLE BATTING MLEs
(Excerpted from 2002)
SAMPLE PITCHING MLEs
(Excerpted from 2002)
NOTE: To try these files out in Excel, RIGHT-CLICK on a link above, select SAVE TARGET AS, and save the file to your computer. Then open the file in Excel as you normally would.
More Information
For those newcomers to the concept, this is a model that was introduced by Bill James in his 1985 Baseball Abstract. He showed that minor league statistics -- appropriately adjusted -- were an accurate measure of what a player's minor league performance might have looked like in the Majors.
In addition, due to the wide variations in the level of play among different minor leagues, it is often difficult to get a true reading on a player's potential. For instance, a .300 batting average achieved in the high-offense Pacific Coast League is not nearly as much of an accomplishment as a similar level in the Eastern League. MLEs normalize these variances.
The model we use contains a few minor variations from James' version and updates all of the minor league and ballpark factors. In addition, we have designed a module to project pitcher stats (which James did not do).
