The Best Corner Outfield Tandem in the MLB

This is inspired by a comment made by slc ranger in the Post-game thread and by the fact that I can't sleep after wins like that...but mostly slc.

All stats regrettably don't include last night's slugfest (WAIT, NOW THEY DO*), and I mostly decided to base it on who had played the most games at left field and right field (respectively), regardless of whether they still start or were traded or whatever.  Occasionally, on a whim, I would just throw in somebody that seemed like they should be there (the Giants, Athletics, and a few other teams had weird distributions for their outfield).  If any of my selections bother you, screw you.  This was about the awesomeness that is Hamilton and Nellie.

*I only bothered to update teams near the top, since they were the point of this little study.

(coolaid gets credit here)

https://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=0AoxYg3WCbUIWdHJubEZSUlFQSzRiN194S0QyRXRRQmc&authkey=CI6F1ssH&hl=en&output=html

There you go.  For the most part, these numbers speak for themselves, and it's 3:40 AM, so I'll just leave a few points here.

• Despite playing in nearly 30 fewer games than the the second best COF (Rays), the duo of Josh Hamilton and Nelson Cruz have been almost 20 runs more valuable than Crawford and Zobrist.
• Jesus Christ, Astros.
• No one really comes close to these two offensively, particularly if I'd bothered to account for offense on a per game basis.
• They still rank 5th in defense (Crawford and Zobrist are pretty close to lapping the field here, though).
• Hamilton would rank 4th in this list (3rd if you don't count him for the Rangers).
• Cruz himself would rank a respectable 12th.
• Every other game, our corner outfield gives us a run a replace player wouldn't.  That adds up in a hurry.
• Seriously, Houston.  1.7 runs above replacement?

(WAR stats courtesy of fangraphs.com, games played courtesty of baseball-reference.com)