An Overview of the BABS Player Pool
Feb 4 2025
Understanding the player pool is essential to assemble a plan to meet the BABS objectives for total assets and risk costs. BABS suggests a target of 35 assets for offense (14 Pw, 7 Sp, 14 Av), or about 2 1/2 per batter, and 12 assets for starting pitchers (6 Er and 6 K). For liabilities, BABS considers a budget of less than $30 in risk costs exceptional. These are ambitious goals, but they force us to work harder to meet them.
With that background, let’s take a closer look at the composition of the 2025 player pool. (Note that each database update may shift some of this data slightly, but the underlying distributions should be unaffected.)
Batters
| PT | All | 3+ | 2 | 1 | Total >1 | 0 | -1/-2 |
| Full | 174 | 29 | 43 | 51 | 123 | 40 | 11 |
| Mid | 104 | 3 | 12 | 36 | 51 | 33 | 20 |
| Part | 130 | 0 | 3 | 16 | 19 | 51 | 60 |
| Total | 408 | 32 | 58 |
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