Over the course of his career,
Henry Merchant
made 426 plate appearances
and pitched 42 innings.
Merchant
was worth
1.0 Wins Above Replacement
(0.8 as a hitter and 0.1 as a pitcher)
and -0.4 Wins Above Average
(-0.3 as a hitter and -0.1 as a pitcher).
After adjusting for length of schedule, catchers, and relief pitchers, the 1.0 WAR becomes
3.4 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 -0.4 WAA becomes 0.1 adjWAA.
Then, the adjWAR and adjWAA are combined, but with extra weighting given to adjWAA.
This gives Merchant 3.6 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).
Henry Merchant has a Hall Rating of
3,
leaving him nowhere close to induction to the Hall of Stats.
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