Over the course of his career,
Larry Bowa
made 9,109 plate appearances.
Bowa
was worth
22.8 Wins Above Replacement
and -6.6 Wins Above Average.
After adjusting for length of schedule, catchers, and relief pitchers, the 22.8 WAR becomes
23.4 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 -6.6 WAA becomes 8.2 adjWAA.
Then, the adjWAR and adjWAA are combined, but with extra weighting given to adjWAA.
This gives Bowa 38.2 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).
Larry Bowa has a Hall Rating of
36,
leaving him nowhere close to induction to the Hall of Stats.
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