Running 2017 MLB regular season thread

Within a season, yes.

Across generations, no.

 

I'd like to know how they calculated the 1905 replacement player before I completely buy your assertion.

 

Albert Pujols has a -0.8 WAR this year. I'd like to know who that hypothetical replacement player is. That's all.

 

I don't think you fully grasp what hypothetical means?

 

Fangraphs has an explanation here of how they calculate it.

Replacement Level | FanGraphs Sabermetrics Library

Like RickStain said, it's not terribly important, as long as, when you are comparing historically, you calculate it the same way each season.

 

Does FanGraphs or anyone else name a Replacement Player Of The Year? The most perfectly indistinguishable major leaguer? That would be fun.

 

The White Sox currently field a full roster of them.

 

Here are some 2011-2012 replacement players.

The Recent Examples of a Replacement Level Player | FanGraphs Baseball

It surprises me that they had a library of info on the 1905 replacement players.

 

Probably some guy on the Padres.

 

Why wouldn't they?

They kept stats. There was not a major league game played that year that you could not locate the box score for, and probably the play by play.

What is the big mystery here?

 

I have zero understanding of 1905 recordkeeping. Now I know.

 

I mean this sincerely, and not as an attempt to start a pissing match that will trigger another Ragu-length polemic from you about how I am the scourge of this site:

What are you not understanding here? There was baseball played in the 1910s. There was baseball played in the 1900s. There was baseball played in the 1890s.

And they kept records. That's how we know about Ty Cobb. That's how we know about Kid Nichols. And Cap Anson.

What don't you understand?