Over the course of his career,
Hilton Smith
pitched 921 innings
and made 536 plate appearances.
Smith
was worth
23.3 Wins Above Replacement
(19.7 as a pitcher and 3.6 as a hitter)
and 16.6 Wins Above Average
(13.7 as a pitcher and 3.1 as a hitter).
After adjusting for length of schedule, catchers, and relief pitchers, the 23.3 WAR becomes
30.3 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 16.6 WAA becomes 16.5 adjWAA.
Then, the adjWAR and adjWAA are combined, but with extra weighting given to adjWAA.
This gives Smith 60.0 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).
Hilton Smith has a Hall Rating of
56,
leaving him nowhere close to induction to the Hall of Stats.
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