Over the course of his career,
Bill Stearns
pitched 699 innings
and made 411 plate appearances.
Stearns
was worth
-9.5 Wins Above Replacement
(-7.5 as a pitcher and -2.0 as a hitter)
and -15.1 Wins Above Average
(-12.9 as a pitcher and -2.2 as a hitter).
After adjusting for length of schedule, catchers, and relief pitchers, the -9.5 WAR becomes
-12.1 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 -15.1 WAA becomes 0.5 adjWAA.
Then, the adjWAR and adjWAA are combined, but with extra weighting given to adjWAA.
This gives Stearns -11.2 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).
Bill Stearns has a Hall Rating of
-11,
leaving him nowhere close to induction to the Hall of Stats.
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