Over the course of his career,
Mark Buehrle
pitched 3,283 innings
and made 140 plate appearances.
Buehrle
was worth
59.1 Wins Above Replacement
(60.0 as a pitcher and -1.0 as a hitter)
and 28.3 Wins Above Average
(29.3 as a pitcher and -1.0 as a hitter).
After adjusting for length of schedule, catchers, and relief pitchers, the 59.1 WAR becomes
59.2 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 28.3 WAA becomes 29.9 adjWAA.
Then, the adjWAR and adjWAA are combined, but with extra weighting given to adjWAA.
This gives Buehrle 113.0 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).
Mark Buehrle has a Hall Rating of
105,
making him a member of the Hall of Stats—but one who sits very close to the borderline.
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