Over the course of his career,
Catfish Hunter
pitched 3,449 innings
and made 710 plate appearances.
Hunter was worth 36.7 Wins Above Replacement
(32.1 as a pitcher and 4.6 as a hitter)
and 10.5 Wins Above Average
(5.8 as a pitcher and 4.6 as a hitter).
After adjusting for length of schedule, catchers, and relief pitchers, the 36.7 WAR becomes
37.0 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 10.5 WAA becomes 15.1 adjWAA.
Then, the adjWAR and adjWAA are combined, but with extra weighting given to adjWAA.
This gives Hunter 62.6 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).
Catfish Hunter has a Hall Rating of 62,
leaving him short of induction to the Hall of Stats.
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