Saturday, November 20, 2010

Ultimate WAR Flameout: Ruben Sierra

Some fun stuff on Ruben Sierra, using Baseball-Reference's historical WAR database...

Accumulated WAR, before age 26 season: +16.6
Highest single season WAR, before age 26 season: +5.7
Lowest single season WAR, before age 26 season: +1.2
Average WAR per season, before age 26 season: +2.7

Accumulated WAR, age 26 season and beyond: -3
Highest single season WAR, age 26 season and beyond: +2.0
Lowest single season WAR, age 26 season and beyond: -2.4
Average WAR per season, age 26 season and beyond: -0.2

Another fun Ruben Sierra fact: Despite being worth an average of -0.2 WAR per season after his age 25 season, he still managed to hit 167 homeruns and average over 350 plate appearances per season while changing teams 11 times in 14 seasons. It's also worth mentioning that his single season high OBP in that time frame was .327. I suppose teams just really liked his power?

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