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Originally Posted by OhioLawyerF5
You are using all offensive numbers to compare a metric that includes defense and baserunning as well, in addition to the fact that WAR compares the player to the league. So variance is the rest of the league performance will affect the WAR.
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Thanks for all responses thus far. So you are telling me that twice as many--29 more HR, 44 more RBI and a higher batting average (Judge 2024) is only deserving of less than 1 more WAR point due to 20 more SB (Trout 2016) and playing I guess a little better average outfield, because neither are great fielders? How does that make any sense?
Or was it the average 2010s players were just absolute trash thereby inflating the few good players WAR numbers over those years?
WAR seems extremely unreliable.