A Saber-Slanted Baseball Community

In 20 minutes, try and name the top five WAR totals for each franchise. Pitchers and previous locations/names included.

Zack looked like he was going to "make history" back in May. You know, the history books that cite pitcher WAR. So, I checked it out using my usual tricks that are actually borrowed from other people: Colin Wyers' BsR-FIP (why isn't this used more?), PythagenPat, etc. to see how he stacked up, and in the meantime, I rank a number of other great seasons. And, yes, this includes some stuff from before the "FanGraphs Era" (2002-).

I updated the project using Sky's new spreadsheet, CHONE derived wOBA and still the weighed tRA* for the last three years converted to ERA for pitching. The result: 83.2 wins.* *I'm still about 300 outs shy on offense so I imagine the negative contribution from pinch hitters will bring that down to earth.