Who was Willis Hudlin?

While being high on a team’s all-time wins above replacement list is normally reserved for some kind of legend, it can’t always be the case. Sometimes, quite frankly, it’s just a guy who was there for a while. Willis Hudlin, who earned a 24th-best-in-Cleveland-baseball-history 32.2 WAR in his career spanning from 1924 to 1940, is that kind of player.

The nature of WAR as a compiling stat is such that it allows guys who just hang around to outpace players that, if you had to choose, would probably be the preferred choice over the compiler. Which isn’t to say Hudlin was a bad player, far from it. He had his moments. It’s just that, all things considered, being half-remembered would be the…