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Wednesday, December 24, 2008

(recent) Historical WAR on Fangraphs

By Tangotiger, 02:43 PM

I won’t vouch for the results, though David does have all the components in place. From 2002-2008, Darin Erstad produced $28MM in value, but it cost his teams $40MM. That just some of the fun you can have with this…

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