Over the course of his career,
Sterling Hitchcock
pitched 1,285 innings
and made 240 plate appearances.
Hitchcock
was worth
8.1 Wins Above Replacement
(9.5 as a pitcher and -1.3 as a hitter)
and -3.2 Wins Above Average
(-1.9 as a pitcher and -1.3 as a hitter).
After adjusting for length of schedule, catchers, and relief pitchers, the 8.1 WAR becomes
9.1 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 -3.2 WAA becomes 3.8 adjWAA.
Then, the adjWAR and adjWAA are combined, but with extra weighting given to adjWAA.
This gives Hitchcock 15.9 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).
Sterling Hitchcock has a Hall Rating of
15,
leaving him nowhere close to induction to the Hall of Stats.
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