Over the course of his career,
Lew Burdette
pitched 3,068 innings
and made 1,123 plate appearances.
Burdette
was worth
28.6 Wins Above Replacement
(25.5 as a pitcher and 3.1 as a hitter)
and -1.2 Wins Above Average
(-4.2 as a pitcher and 3.0 as a hitter).
After adjusting for length of schedule, catchers, and relief pitchers, the 28.6 WAR becomes
30.1 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 -1.2 WAA becomes 9.0 adjWAA.
Then, the adjWAR and adjWAA are combined, but with extra weighting given to adjWAA.
This gives Burdette 46.4 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).
Lew Burdette has a Hall Rating of
44,
leaving him nowhere close to induction to the Hall of Stats.
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