Over the course of his career,
Ed Whitson
pitched 2,240 innings
and made 673 plate appearances.
Whitson
was worth
21.0 Wins Above Replacement
(22.7 as a pitcher and -1.4 as a hitter)
and 1.6 Wins Above Average
(3.2 as a pitcher and -1.5 as a hitter).
After adjusting for length of schedule, catchers, and relief pitchers, the 21.0 WAR becomes
21.7 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 1.6 WAA becomes 14.8 adjWAA.
Then, the adjWAR and adjWAA are combined, but with extra weighting given to adjWAA.
This gives Whitson 48.3 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).
Ed Whitson has a Hall Rating of
45,
leaving him nowhere close to induction to the Hall of Stats.
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