Over the course of his career,
Ernie Whitt
made 4,271 plate appearances.
Whitt
was worth
18.4 Wins Above Replacement
and 4.7 Wins Above Average.
After adjusting for length of schedule, catchers, and relief pitchers, the 18.4 WAR becomes
22.0 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 4.7 WAA becomes 10.0 adjWAA.
Then, the adjWAR and adjWAA are combined, but with extra weighting given to adjWAA.
This gives Whitt 40.0 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).
Ernie Whitt has a Hall Rating of
38,
leaving him nowhere close to induction to the Hall of Stats.
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