Over the course of his career,
Jim Kaat
pitched 4,530 innings
and made 1,363 plate appearances.
Kaat
was worth
50.5 Wins Above Replacement
(45.2 as a pitcher and 5.3 as a hitter)
and 12.7 Wins Above Average
(7.8 as a pitcher and 5.0 as a hitter).
After adjusting for length of schedule, catchers, and relief pitchers, the 50.5 WAR becomes
50.5 adjWAR. Then, WAA is adjusted by ignoring negative seasons
(thus, truly capturing a player’s peak seasons) and making similar adjustments for catchers and relief pitchers.
After these adjustments, the 12.7 WAA becomes 23.4 adjWAA.
Then, the adjWAR and adjWAA are combined, but with extra weighting given to adjWAA.
This gives Kaat 92.6 wWAR. wWAR is then converted to Hall Rating.
A Hall Rating of 100 represents the Hall of Stats borderline (similar to OPS+ or wRC+, where 100 represents league average).
Jim Kaat has a Hall Rating of
87,
leaving him short of induction to the Hall of Stats.
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