Over the course of his career,
Mark Langston
pitched 2,962 innings
and made 100 plate appearances.
Langston
was worth
50.1 Wins Above Replacement
(50.0 as a pitcher and 0.1 as a hitter)
and 23.4 Wins Above Average
(23.3 as a pitcher and 0.1 as a hitter).
After adjusting for length of schedule, catchers, and relief pitchers, the 50.1 WAR becomes
51.1 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 23.4 WAA becomes 27.2 adjWAA.
Then, the adjWAR and adjWAA are combined, but with extra weighting given to adjWAA.
This gives Langston 100.1 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).
Mark Langston has a Hall Rating of
94,
making him close to the Hall of Stats borderline—but still on the outside.
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