Best Values Among Elias Type A & B Free Agents

The Elias rankings, used to determine free-agent types, are now public, thanks to MLBTradeRumors. To the extent that teams consider these types when making decisions on which of their own players to offer arbitration to, which free agents to attempt to sign and even — in the recent case of the Blue Jays — which players to trade for without much intention of having them ever wear the uniform, the Elias ratings matter. But, as with any system that uses suboptimal statistics to assess player value, the Elias ratings — which use pitcher wins and losses, for example — offer a potential market inefficiency for general managers.

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