Red Reporter · Jan 5, 2018
Bob Castellini wants Billy Hamilton to be a Cincinnati Red ‘forever’
Wins Above Replacement is a very imperfect statistic. Truthfully, it’s less a statistic and more a formula, a vessel that allows us to throw all the inputs we can possibly attempt to quantify into one box, shake it around for a bit, and open it up to find one tidy number. It is a heartfelt attempt to help determine what wins baseball games, placing value on the combination of running the bases, running down fly balls, and smacking dingers, which is an admittedly difficult, nebulous thing to create - so difficult, even, that we rely on both FanGraphs and Baseball Reference for their WAR totals despite them often being in wild disagreement.