Right field
Ten players qualified while predominantly playing right field. As with Arozarena in left, this position was dominated by one clearly superior player.
Juan Soto was the easy WAR leader with scores of 7.1 in Washington in 2021 followed by 5.6 in Washington and San Diego in 2022. That totaled 12.7 and was nearly two points more than Houston’s Kyle Tucker (10.9) in second place. Mookie Betts (10.6) was third. Starling Marte ranked fourth in the category and Texas’ Adolis Garcia fifth.
Tucker posted a 128 OPS+ in 2022 atop his 147 of 2021 for an average of 137.5. But that was a figurative mile behind Soto, with scores of 175 and 149 for an average of 162.0. Marte (132.0) was third, Betts (131.0) fourth and Teoscar Hernandez (120.0) fifth.
Soto completed his sweep of the category with a plate appearance total of 1,321. That was 91 percent of the theoretical maximum availability. It left the rest of the field to vie for second-team status. Garcia was second in availability with Betts, Tucker and Nick Castellanos third through fifth.
The final result: Soto at 1.00 with a clean sweep of the categories, followed by Tucker (2.67), Betts (3.33), and Garcia (5.00).
The startling thing here is the relatively modest third place showing of Betts. He trailed Soto in both WAR and OPS+. But his moderate availability, 82.1 percent of the two-season theoretical maximum, was what really undermined any chance of him overtaking Soto and winning the category.