Modified bWARs of position players for 2019

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Modified bWARs of position players for 2019

Post by DavidGee24 » Fri Oct 18, 2019 8:45 pm

This is something I came up with, where you take your average (not replacement, but average) player's bWAR over a full season, which is about 1.8, and then compare each of the Mariner position players, prorated out over a full season, against it.

This is for all position plays who played at least 1/4 of the season. Obviously in the lower cases the prorating wouldn't necessarily hold up, for instance for someone like Encarnacion who didn't perform as well for the Yankees.

Beckham: minus 1.1 (meaning that over a full season he loses one game for you by himself in comparison to an average player)
Crawford: minus 0.2
Encarnacion: plus 3.4 (plus 2.4 if you count his time with the Yankees)
Gordon: minus 1.2 (and minus 0.9 in 2018; he's gotta go)
Haniger: plus 1.8 (imagine if he'd actually hit for a decent average)
Healy: minus 1.5 (and minus 2.5 in 2018; he's gotta go)
Long: minus 2.2 (this is all on the defensive end; he can't be that bad)
Lopes: plus 1.4 (he's decent but I just don't see this)
Moore: minus 1.5
Murphy: plus 3.8 (our top position player)
Narvaez: plus 0.8
Nola: plus 0.7
Santana: minus 1.3
Seager: plus 1.9
Smith: minus 1.9 (our worst position player)
Vogelbach: minus 0.2

Mike Trout would have come out at plus 8.2, that guy by himself wins you just over eight games more than an average player.

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Re: Modified bWARs of position players for 2019

Post by D-train » Fri Oct 18, 2019 9:34 pm

Good analysis. Thanks for doing this David.
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Re: Modified bWARs of position players for 2019

Post by Happy as hell » Fri Oct 18, 2019 10:22 pm

DavidGee24 wrote:
Fri Oct 18, 2019 8:45 pm
This is something I came up with, where you take your average (not replacement, but average) player's bWAR over a full season, which is about 1.8, and then compare each of the Mariner position players, prorated out over a full season, against it.

This is for all position plays who played at least 1/4 of the season. Obviously in the lower cases the prorating wouldn't necessarily hold up, for instance for someone like Encarnacion who didn't perform as well for the Yankees.

Beckham: minus 1.1 (meaning that over a full season he loses one game for you by himself in comparison to an average player)
Crawford: minus 0.2
Encarnacion: plus 3.4 (plus 2.4 if you count his time with the Yankees)
Gordon: minus 1.2 (and minus 0.9 in 2018; he's gotta go)
Haniger: plus 1.8 (imagine if he'd actually hit for a decent average)
Healy: minus 1.5 (and minus 2.5 in 2018; he's gotta go)
Long: minus 2.2 (this is all on the defensive end; he can't be that bad)
Lopes: plus 1.4 (he's decent but I just don't see this)
Moore: minus 1.5
Murphy: plus 3.8 (our top position player)
Narvaez: plus 0.8
Nola: plus 0.7
Santana: minus 1.3
Seager: plus 1.9
Smith: minus 1.9 (our worst position player)
Vogelbach: minus 0.2

Mike Trout would have come out at plus 8.2, that guy by himself wins you just over eight games more than an average player.
That confirms my impressions, so your analysis must be right. :D

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