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Friday, March 23, 2007

WARP

By Tangotiger

Clay will be starting a chat soon. I submitted the following question, which we’ll see how it will be addressed:

Name: Mario Mendoza
Location: Above the Line

In 1979, I had an OPS+ of 25, which must be one of the worst hitting performances of all time, for a guy given 300 outs:
http://www.baseball-reference.com/m/mendoma01.shtml

You consider me an overall average-fielding SS, and barely above-average that year.

Yet my WARP1 is a plus (0.6):
http://www.baseballprospectus.com/dt/mendoma01.php

What would it take to revamp WARP?

(43) Comments • 2007/03/27 • Sabermetrics • Talent_Distribution

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