In The Lab: A Look at Available Left Fielders

We took a look at available center fielders earlier in the week and it is now time to take a look at available left fielders. This time we will only look at free agent left fielders because there really are no good internal options and the trade market is vast and hard to predict. That being said, we really have two groups of players we can look at. We have players that have been regular players and therefore are likely to be a little more pricey than their platoon counterparts.

As per usual, we will take a look at their career slash statistics, isolated power, isolated patience, real offensive value, and bases per out. Real offensive value is a hybrid stat I invented to encompass both…