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Originally Posted by Aquarian Sports Cards
If it makes you feel better his WAR with the Mets that year was 2.3 for about 1/3 a season. Extrapolate that to a 6.9 and it's a great season, but not even MVP level most years. Also don't use WAR in a bubble. Cespedes is normally about a 3 WAR guy. That's the reality, not his flukey 2015.
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You understand, don't you, that you are proving my point?? So, according to the 'WARmongers' (yes, I'm coining a new word), with Cespedes playing instead of some theoretical average schlub, it only resulted in two extra victories for the Mets that third of a season???? Seriously??? That is the most laughable piece of absolute fiction I have ever seen in my life. Now I have even less respect for the WAR stat. And, again, back to people who play baseball versus the statisticians sitting in Starbucks. It goes beyond looking at numbers on a page. His monster play lifted the entire team, lifted the entire fanbase. The attitude of the players went through the roof, because now they had Superman to save the day. This newfound confidence got the entire squad rolling. Sure, sure, it's a team, so there were many factors involved, not just his production, but they won a helluva lot more than 2.3 games due to his presence.