Keith Hernandez: It’s WAR!
by Teufel Stubble | March 25th, 2009
The lapels are made of earlier Hernandez mustaches.
We’re a day late on this, but what an amazin’ piece on Always Amazin’ by Matthew Artus yesterday. He offers a convincing argument for our patron saint (and his killer stache) to be in the Hall of Fame. The logic centers around the Wins Above Replacement (WAR) statistic and complicated graphs. Matthew can explain it much better than I can.
Essentially, WAR attempts to quantify a player’s value over that of an “average” player. A positive WAR means that you’re an improvement over the average. A negative WAR means you’re dead weight.
Matthew goes on to show that Keith’s WAR numbers are better than Hall of Famers Tony Perez and Orlando Cepeda. The graphs are quite lovely and essentially we learn that Keith should be in the Hall of Fame where his bronze mustache can be viewed for centuries.
Now, if only we could get a Wins Above Replacement Mustache statistic. It’s WARM!
Tags: Always Amazin', Hall of Fame, Keith Hernandez, statistics
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