Over the course of his career,
Steve Sparks
pitched 1,319 innings
and made 44 plate appearances.
Sparks
was worth
10.1 Wins Above Replacement
(10.4 as a pitcher and -0.2 as a hitter)
and -2.4 Wins Above Average
(-2.1 as a pitcher and -0.2 as a hitter).
After adjusting for length of schedule, catchers, and relief pitchers, the 10.1 WAR becomes
10.7 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 -2.4 WAA becomes 5.9 adjWAA.
Then, the adjWAR and adjWAA are combined, but with extra weighting given to adjWAA.
This gives Sparks 21.3 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).
Steve Sparks has a Hall Rating of
20,
leaving him nowhere close to induction to the Hall of Stats.
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