Over the course of his career,
Red Ruffing
pitched 4,341 innings
and made 2,084 plate appearances.
Ruffing was worth 63.3 Wins Above Replacement
(48.6 as a pitcher and 14.7 as a hitter)
and 29.7 Wins Above Average
(15.1 as a pitcher and 14.6 as a hitter).
After adjusting for length of schedule, catchers, and relief pitchers, the 63.3 WAR becomes
64.6 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 29.7 WAA becomes 21.8 adjWAA.
Then, the adjWAR and adjWAA are combined, but with extra weighting given to adjWAA.
This gives Ruffing 101.5 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).
Red Ruffing has a Hall Rating of 100,
making him a member of the Hall of Stats—but one who sits very close to the borderline.
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