Over the course of his career,
Tommy Bridges
pitched 2,825 innings
and made 1,142 plate appearances.
Bridges
was worth
51.1 Wins Above Replacement
(52.5 as a pitcher and -1.5 as a hitter)
and 25.6 Wins Above Average
(27.0 as a pitcher and -1.5 as a hitter).
After adjusting for length of schedule, catchers, and relief pitchers, the 51.1 WAR becomes
52.0 adjWAR. Then, WAA is adjusted by ignoring negative seasons
(thus, truly capturing a player’s peak seasons) and making similar adjustments for catchers and relief pitchers.
After these adjustments, the 25.6 WAA becomes 29.5 adjWAA.
Then, the adjWAR and adjWAA are combined, but with extra weighting given to adjWAA.
This gives Bridges 104.5 wWAR. wWAR is then converted to Hall Rating.
A Hall Rating of 100 represents the Hall of Stats borderline (similar to OPS+ or wRC+, where 100 represents league average).
Tommy Bridges has a Hall Rating of
99,
making him close to the Hall of Stats borderline—but still on the outside.
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