Over the course of his career,
Don Sutton
pitched 5,282 innings
and made 1,559 plate appearances.
Sutton
was worth
66.7 Wins Above Replacement
(68.3 as a pitcher and -1.6 as a hitter)
and 21.4 Wins Above Average
(23.0 as a pitcher and -1.6 as a hitter).
After adjusting for length of schedule, catchers, and relief pitchers, the 66.7 WAR becomes
68.5 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 21.4 WAA becomes 27.7 adjWAA.
Then, the adjWAR and adjWAA are combined, but with extra weighting given to adjWAA.
This gives Sutton 118.4 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).
Don Sutton has a Hall Rating of
111,
making him a member of the Hall of Stats.
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