Over the course of his career,
Cliff Lee
pitched 2,156 innings
and made 321 plate appearances.
Lee
was worth
43.3 Wins Above Replacement
(42.5 as a pitcher and 0.7 as a hitter)
and 23.8 Wins Above Average
(23.2 as a pitcher and 0.6 as a hitter).
After adjusting for length of schedule, catchers, and relief pitchers, the 43.3 WAR becomes
43.2 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 23.8 WAA becomes 26.1 adjWAA.
Then, the adjWAR and adjWAA are combined, but with extra weighting given to adjWAA.
This gives Lee 90.2 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).
Cliff Lee has a Hall Rating of
85,
leaving him short of induction to the Hall of Stats.
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