Over the course of his career,
Al Kaline
made 11,596 plate appearances.
Kaline was worth 87.4 Wins Above Replacement
and 55.4 Wins Above Average.
After adjusting for length of schedule, catchers, and relief pitchers, the 87.4 WAR becomes
88.3 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 55.4 WAA becomes 58.5 adjWAA.
Then, the adjWAR and adjWAA are combined, but with extra weighting given to adjWAA.
This gives Kaline 187.1 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).
Al Kaline has a Hall Rating of 185,
making him not only a member of the Hall of Stats—but one of the very best players of all time.
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