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.
W | L | Pct | GB | |
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31 | 15 | .674 | 0.0 | |
28 | 14 | .667 | 1.0 | |
24 | 22 | .522 | 7.0 | |
22 | 22 | .500 | 8.0 | |
19 | 24 | .442 | 10.5 |