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The 25 MLB players who have the greatest value to their teams

Cork GainesAug 15, 2015, 21:55 IST

Mike Trout would get some extra rest under the Costas Plan.Reuters

Mike Trout and Bryce Harper are the favorites to win this year's MVP awards, but if we want to know which players truly have the most value we need to consider more than dominant offensive numbers.

Using Fangraphs' Wins Above Replacement (WAR) for the past two seasons, which measures a player's overall value and puts all players on the same scale, WAR Value, which puts a dollar value on each Win in WAR (~$7.4 million per Win in 2014 and ~$8.0 million per Win in 2015), and 2015 salary, we get a true sense of which players are truly the most valuable to their teams.

Here are the top 25.