I would argue that at least in some cases WAR does a good job of offsetting late career added counting stats. Take Pujols again. 2018 and 2019, he adds 42 HR and 157 RBI to his counting stats (the latter thanks to Mike Trout being on base so damn much in front of him), but had a ZERO total WAR.
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