Over the course of his career,
Mark Buehrle
pitched 3,283 innings
and made 140 plate appearances.
Buehrle
was worth
58.5 Wins Above Replacement
(59.2 as a pitcher and -0.7 as a hitter)
and 27.7 Wins Above Average
(28.4 as a pitcher and -0.7 as a hitter).
After adjusting for length of schedule, catchers, and relief pitchers, the 58.5 WAR becomes
58.6 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 27.7 WAA becomes 29.3 adjWAA.
Then, the adjWAR and adjWAA are combined, but with extra weighting given to adjWAA.
This gives Buehrle 110.9 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,
meaning he will be in the Hall of Stats when eligible—but very close to the borderline.
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