If Payton was playing in Colorado maybe his stats would not suffer. But he plays in Baltimore which is a pretty good hitters park too. Seems like a worthless pickup to me.

Outfielders worth picking up in order are Barry Bonds, Gary Sheffield, Aubrey Huff, and Kenny Lofton.

That is a quantity that does not matter relative to value. If we were to pick up Andruw Jones and his inflated contract or Sheffield it would be one thing because they are not producing, but Huff is having a great year in what has been an above average career.

Year Team PA wOBA RV/PA bRAA RV600 $bRAA
2008 BAL 505 0.387 0.049 24.7 29.4 $323,886.64

To keep the math easy we will look at a couple of other guys with bRAA in the positive range. And I can’t find reliable contract info for this year or next so I will be looking at 2007. If only every team had a spreadsheet of the teams obligations over the next half decade much like Draysbay, alas.

Adam Dunn
Year Team PA wOBA RV/PA bRAA RV600 $bRAA
2007 CIN 631 0.396 0.057 36.0 34.2 $291,666.67
Manny Ramirez
2007 BOS 569 0.371 0.035 19.9 21.0 $855,094.52
Derek Jeter
2007 NYA 711 0.391 0.052 37.0 31.2 $583,783.78
Barry Bonds
2007 SFN 476 0.392 0.053 25.2 31.8 $616,427.38
Alex Rodriguez
2007 NYA 707 0.442 0.097 68.6 58.2 $331,028.06
Jason Giambi (Highest paid player 2007)
2007 NYA 301 0.348 0.015 4.5 9.0 $5,206,349.11
Chipper Jones
2007 ATL 599 0.449 0.103 61.7 61.8 $199,891.94
Albert Pujols
2007 SLN 679 0.416 0.074 50.2 44.4 $257,725.35
Jimmy Rollins
2007 PHI 775 0.381 0.043 33.3 25.8 $240,240.24
Justin Morneau
2007 MIN 665 0.354 0.020 13.3 12.0 $338,345.86
Chase Utley
2007 PHI 613 0.425 0.082 50.3 49.2 $95,143.42

I could keep going, but I think you get the point. I did these by hand using Statscorner.com and B-Ref so if you catch a mistake that is why. Something that should probably be continued when I get more time, whenever that is.