Over the course of his career,
Steve Blass
pitched 1,597 innings
and made 600 plate appearances.
Blass
was worth
7.6 Wins Above Replacement
(7.0 as a pitcher and 0.5 as a hitter)
and -6.8 Wins Above Average
(-7.3 as a pitcher and 0.4 as a hitter).
After adjusting for length of schedule, catchers, and relief pitchers, the 7.6 WAR becomes
7.4 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 -6.8 WAA becomes 4.5 adjWAA.
Then, the adjWAR and adjWAA are combined, but with extra weighting given to adjWAA.
This gives Blass 15.5 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).
Steve Blass has a Hall Rating of
15,
leaving him nowhere close to induction to the Hall of Stats.
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