2002-10 Major League Equivalencies

The Major League Equivalents (MLE) charts provide stats and sabermetric gauges for virtually all of 2008's Triple-A and Double-A batters and pitchers. Players are listed if they amassed at least 100 AB or 30 IP between both levels.

This is a model that was introduced by Bill James in his 1985 Baseball Abstract. He showed how minor league statistics could be converted to an equivalent major league level and how these MLEs were an accurate indicator of a player's future performance. (Note that MLEs are not projections; they represent what a player's minor league performance might look like at the major league level.) Because of wide variations in the level of play among different minor leagues, it is often difficult to get a true...

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