Over the course of his career,
Boots McClain
made 516 plate appearances.
McClain
was worth
-1.5 Wins Above Replacement
and -3.1 Wins Above Average.
After adjusting for length of schedule, catchers, and relief pitchers, the -1.5 WAR becomes
-3.6 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 -3.1 WAA becomes 0.1 adjWAA.
Then, the adjWAR and adjWAA are combined, but with extra weighting given to adjWAA.
This gives McClain -3.4 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).
Boots McClain has a Hall Rating of
-3,
leaving him nowhere close to induction to the Hall of Stats.
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