Over the course of his career,
Fred Talbot
pitched 853 innings
and made 288 plate appearances.
Talbot
was worth
3.2 Wins Above Replacement
(1.4 as a pitcher and 1.9 as a hitter)
and -3.8 Wins Above Average
(-5.6 as a pitcher and 1.9 as a hitter).
After adjusting for length of schedule, catchers, and relief pitchers, the 3.2 WAR becomes
3.4 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 -3.8 WAA becomes 0.2 adjWAA.
Then, the adjWAR and adjWAA are combined, but with extra weighting given to adjWAA.
This gives Talbot 3.8 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).
Fred Talbot has a Hall Rating of
4,
leaving him nowhere close to induction to the Hall of Stats.
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