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Historical WAR Review: First Basemen
Today we continue our survey through MLB history, courtesy of Rally's WAR database. Last time, we looked at catchers. Now, we continue our march around the diamond and turn our attent...
Historical WAR Review: Catchers
Preamble Rally just completed the Herculean task of estimating WAR season totals for every player in major league baseball, 1871 onward. I don't think it can be understated what an accomplishmen...
Players That Know How to Fight a WAR Defensively
I finally broke down and "donated" to get all the WAR data from Sean Smith. The following is a look at the top 20 fielders (along with others that might join the list due to their current rank and rat...
Is the Craig Biggio the 35th Greatest Player Ever?
I have been doing some work on Negro League history and was looking at the all time rankings in the last Bill James's Historical Abstract. I saw Craig Biggio ranked as the 35th greatest pla...
Using Win Shares to Guesstimate WAR
Since Rally has released his historic WAR values for the Retrosheet period (pitcher data from 1953 to current and hitter data from1955 to current) there has been many comparisons of players. The comp...
Accumulated Negative Team WAR
Or, What the Reds are to pitching, the Royals are to hitting. Our own erik has been writing about how teams have done in various drafts with their first round picks, and in several cases the...
WAR Graphs: Average and Replacement Level Hall of Fame Values
There has been discussion in the comments sections of a couple of recent articles (here and here) about what values should be used as a baseline for comparing players' seasonal wins above replacement ...
Members of the 500 Home Run Club Not In The Hall Of Fame
With Gary Sheffield just joining the 500 home run club as its 25th member and Jim Thome about to tie Mike Schmidt for 13th on the all-time list, I thought I would take a look at the group of ten playe...
Graph of the Day: Gwynn vs. Edgar vs. Raines vs. Schilling
One first ballot Hall of Famer vs. a handful of guys no one seems sure of. WAR data provided by Sean Smith's Magical Historical WAR Database of Wonder and Awe at BaseballProjection.com.
Graph of the Day: Maddux vs. Clemens
My first attempt at one of these things, and I thought I'd make it a graph I've been interested in doing for a while. Here are arguably the two greatest pitching careers any of us have ever seen, put...
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