Over the course of his career,
John Thornton
pitched 290 innings
and made 145 plate appearances.
Thornton
was worth
1.2 Wins Above Replacement
(2.3 as a pitcher and -1.1 as a hitter)
and -1.3 Wins Above Average
(-0.2 as a pitcher and -1.1 as a hitter).
After adjusting for length of schedule, catchers, and relief pitchers, the 1.2 WAR becomes
0.8 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 -1.3 WAA becomes 0.8 adjWAA.
Then, the adjWAR and adjWAA are combined, but with extra weighting given to adjWAA.
This gives Thornton 2.2 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).
John Thornton has a Hall Rating of
2,
leaving him nowhere close to induction to the Hall of Stats.
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