Prior to this season, Miguel Cabrera was a step ahead of David Wright in terms of batting performance, in the competition between the two young NL East third basemen both of whom have been performing at levels that put them among the top young third basemen ever (DW is about 4 months older than Cabrera). But in 2007, David moved his hitting up another notch and matched Miguel to the extent their hitting numbers were nearly identical.
Wright 2007: .416 OBP, .546 SLG, .962 OPS
Cabrera 2007: .401 OBP, .565 SLG, .966 OPS
Which of course puts Wright definitively ahead in terms of value at the moment, based on his advantages over Cabrera on the bases and in the field.
Players in Age 24 Year, Playing Most of Their Games at Third Base, Highest OPS+:
Richie Allen (1966) OPS+ 181
Ron Santo (1964) OPS+ 164
Jim Thome (1995) OPS+ 158
Mike Schmidt (1974) OPS+ 158
Miguel Cabrera (2007) OPS+ 152
David Wright (2007) OPS+ 152
OPS+, developed and calculated by baseball-reference.com is based on a scale in which 100 = the league average OBP+SLG in a neutral home park.
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