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Originally Posted by Misunderestimated
Excepting his final miraculous season (2022) these last years (2017-21) were not good. Baseball reference gives him a Negative War score of 1.8.... But during these five seasons Pujols did actually hit over 85 HRs and score nearly 200 Runs (and he wasn't just a DH).. To me that "ain't nothing" -- it has to have some affirmative value in measuring Pujols's career. That's my quibble with WAR.
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Isn't WAR telling you that in those last years a replacement value player would have been better than Pujols? Therefore Pujol's playing, instead of a replacement player, hurt the team. Makes sense that he loses WAR points for that. Assuming the numbers are correct of course