So far in his career,
Jon Lester
has
pitched 2,598 innings
and made 372 plate appearances.
Lester
has been worth
44.6 Wins Above Replacement
(45.0 as a pitcher and -0.4 as a hitter)
and 21.4 Wins Above Average
(21.8 as a pitcher and -0.4 as a hitter).
After adjusting for length of schedule, catchers, and relief pitchers, the 44.6 WAR becomes
44.2 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 21.4 WAA becomes 25.1 adjWAA.
Then, the adjWAR and adjWAA are combined, but with extra weighting given to adjWAA.
This gives Lester 89.5 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).
Jon Lester has a Hall Rating of
83,
meaning he would not be in the Hall of Stats if his career ended today.
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