[Belfast1933]

I was just musing with my baseball buds about Kyle Schwarber’s amazing night (4 dingers) and great season already (119 RBIs with 30+ games still to play)

But what I find to be fascinating is that his career WAR is still under 20!

I’ve drifted into the calculations that make up this Modern compilation statistic, but found myself a little dizzy, so I just assumed someone smarter than me figured this all out. Generally, when I look at all-time leaders, it seems to hold up at the high-level.

But how can Schwarbs, with over 360 career home runs, career slugging of about .475, etc have a total of less than 20??

Here is an even crazier outlier, flaw, whatever you want to call it with Schwarbs and WAR - Ok - this is bonkers…. Here are his traditional stats in 2023:

108 runs
48 HRs
104 RBI
Low BA (.197) but with 126 walks, his OBP was over .340
Slugged .474 and OPS of .817

Guess what his WAR was for the year?

0.7!!

Ok, sumpin just ain’t right with that stat… sure, he had zero defensive skills.

But the man RAKED that year! And he was even 19th in MVP voting! But under 1 in WAR??

Crazy - and obviously flawed… at least to some degree.

WAR hates Kyle Schwarber, obviously 🙄