Over the course of his career,
Bud Thomas
pitched 527 innings
and made 176 plate appearances.
Thomas
was worth
2.9 Wins Above Replacement
(4.2 as a pitcher and -1.3 as a hitter)
and -1.9 Wins Above Average
(-0.7 as a pitcher and -1.3 as a hitter).
After adjusting for length of schedule, catchers, and relief pitchers, the 2.9 WAR becomes
3.3 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 -1.9 WAA becomes 0.5 adjWAA.
Then, the adjWAR and adjWAA are combined, but with extra weighting given to adjWAA.
This gives Thomas 4.2 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).
Bud Thomas has a Hall Rating of
4,
leaving him nowhere close to induction to the Hall of Stats.
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