Over the course of his career,
Denny McLain
pitched 1,886 innings
and made 709 plate appearances.
McLain
was worth
19.4 Wins Above Replacement
(20.5 as a pitcher and -1.2 as a hitter)
and 3.6 Wins Above Average
(4.7 as a pitcher and -1.2 as a hitter).
After adjusting for length of schedule, catchers, and relief pitchers, the 19.4 WAR becomes
19.4 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 3.6 WAA becomes 12.6 adjWAA.
Then, the adjWAR and adjWAA are combined, but with extra weighting given to adjWAA.
This gives McLain 42.1 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).
Denny McLain has a Hall Rating of
40,
leaving him nowhere close to induction to the Hall of Stats.
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