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This is why WAR is worthless to use when comparing players who play different positions.
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The guy is a flat out stud. Gunned another guy down at the plate yesterday in a time game
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Just one of many reasons WAR is useless. From my understanding it does somehow get the young kids interested in the game, that is a plus.
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Generally speaking it has seemed like a pretty good stat when I have referred to it, but this is ridiculous -- Simmons now the best player in the majors?
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If you are comparing players of the same position during the exact same time frame I like it, otherwise I consider it worthless.
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Well, look at the top 15 all time. That's not a bad list really, as good as that generated by any other stat I think.
Rank Player (yrs, age) Wins Above Replacement Bats/Throws 1. Babe Ruth+ (22) 183.7 L 2. Cy Young+ (22) 168.5 R 3. Walter Johnson+ (21) 165.6 R 4. Barry Bonds (22) 162.4 L 5. Willie Mays+ (22) 156.2 R 6. Ty Cobb+ (24) 151.1 L 7. Hank Aaron+ (23) 142.6 R 8. Roger Clemens (24) 140.3 R 9. Tris Speaker+ (22) 133.7 L 10. Honus Wagner+ (21) 131.0 R 11. Stan Musial+ (22) 128.1 L 12. Rogers Hornsby+ (23) 127.0 R 13. Eddie Collins+ (25) 123.9 L 14. Ted Williams+ (19) 123.2 L 15. Pete Alexander+ (20) 120.0 R
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If you want it to look more realistic STOP USING BASEBALL REFERENCE. It's formula is bad, and outdated. Fangraphs has Simba 11th in batter fWAR (and this includes defense and baserunning) at 4.6, 1.3 behind #1 Altuve & Judge at 5.9. . http://www.fangraphs.com/leaders.asp...lter=&players= I think that the rub is traditional stats people have kinda ignored the value od defense and base running and over focused on batting alone just because of the nature of stats. But Simbais hitting23% above an average player, playing the best defense in baseball and is an above avg base runner. This adds up to tremendous value.
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The Fangraphs version seems much more realistic to me in assessing Simmons. It also moves Betts down a bit from the ESPN version, which despite being a Red Sox fan I agree with. It also only rates Arenado 21st with which I agree also; his stats seem very park inflated to me.
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I wonder about the pitching part of Fangraphs though. Severino tied with Kershaw?
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That's the old eye test comes in handy no matter how much people want to down play it.
Last edited by packs; 08-14-2017 at 07:25 AM. |
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They have similar K/9 and BB/9 and FIP and Severino has a couple more innings. Plus, remember that park and league factors come into play, Severino facing DH's, playing at Yankee Stadium helps him a bit too.
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