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Originally Posted by thurman merman
This is why WAR is not a completely reliable statistic. There is absolutely no way there are 18 third basemen having better seasons than Mike Moustakas.
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There are a lot of reasons, not the least of which is the defensive component (when defensive metrics are notoriously unreliable in sample sizes under 2-3 years).
But my biggest beef is that it completely ignores run production. WAR adheres wholeheartedly to the idea that an RBI is completely team dependent. And while I agree there is a team dependent component to them, I've seen enough baseball at this point to know that some guys just want to be up there in that spot and they don't shrink. Meanwhile some guys get worse and others just don't give a shit at all. Joey Votto is the absolute worst example of this I've ever seen. I swear to God he could be hitting in front of the pitcher with runners on 2nd and 3rd in a 1 run game and he'd take a pitch a 1/2 inch off the plate rather than do the job himself and get the run in.