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Originally Posted by bravos4evr

it's because you don't understand WAR.

WAR is a cumulative stat, Pujols is the worst player among all players with enough PA's to qualify for the batting title, and has been worth -1.7 fWAR.

His wRC+ (weighted runs created, the most accurate of all hitting stats) is 80 (20% BELOW avg of 100)

his baserunning is woeful -5.4 which dings his WAR

his gets dinged for being a DH on defense because he makes no defensive contribution.

sure you can cherry pick homers and RBI's and ignore everything else but his slash line of .244/.290/.391 OPS of .681 for a DH is pretty terrible, in fact of the 17 players to get 300 or more plate appearances at DH Pujols is in the bottom 3 in wRC+, OPS , isolated power, SLG, OBP and nearly everything else EXCEPT homers (9th) and RBI's (3rd)

RBI's are a team stat as the player has no control over the OBP ability of the hitters in front of him.


He's been pretty darn awful this year .

I 100% agree with 2 things. I do not understand WAR and compared to his peak Pujols is having a bad year.