Red Sox second basemen among 5 MLB position groups that are killing their teams

For better or worse, the wins above replacement statistic (more commonly referred to as WAR) has changed the way we view MLB players forever. WAR attempts to boil down a player's contributions to a single number, determining how many more wins that player is worth to their team than a replacement-level player. WAR can be difficult to use in debates like MVP voting and Hall of Fame selections because not only are there two different methods of calculating it – fWAR and bWAR, for FanGraphs and Baseball Reference -, but it can ignore context as to why some players score higher than others.