Rich already posted on the incredible season Aaron Judge is having, but there’s one way in which his season is actually being underestimated by modern statistical methods.
In recent decades, there’s been a shift away from many standard statistics for measuring a baseball player’s value, to a number of new formulations — one of the most prominent being WAR (Wins Above Replacement), which in theory is supposed to measure how many more wins a team gets by having a given player at a position relative to just slotting in a typical player.
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