Over the course of his career,
High Pockets Kelly
made 6,569 plate appearances
and pitched 5 innings.
Kelly was worth 23.7 Wins Above Replacement
(23.4 as a hitter and 0.3 as a pitcher)
and 4.9 Wins Above Average
(4.6 as a hitter and 0.2 as a pitcher).
After adjusting for length of schedule, catchers, and relief pitchers, the 23.7 WAR becomes
24.4 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 4.9 WAA becomes 10.2 adjWAA.
Then, the adjWAR and adjWAA are combined, but with extra weighting given to adjWAA.
This gives Kelly 41.7 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).
High Pockets Kelly has a Hall Rating of 41,
leaving him nowhere close to induction to the Hall of Stats.
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