Over the course of his career,
John Kirby
pitched 611 innings
and made 261 plate appearances.
Kirby
was worth
-3.3 Wins Above Replacement
(-0.5 as a pitcher and -2.7 as a hitter)
and -7.9 Wins Above Average
(-5.2 as a pitcher and -2.7 as a hitter).
After adjusting for length of schedule, catchers, and relief pitchers, the -3.3 WAR becomes
-3.6 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 -7.9 WAA becomes 0.5 adjWAA.
Then, the adjWAR and adjWAA are combined, but with extra weighting given to adjWAA.
This gives Kirby -2.7 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).
John Kirby has a Hall Rating of
-3,
leaving him nowhere close to induction to the Hall of Stats.
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