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Originally Posted by rman112
Trust me, I definitely don't think that WAR should the end-all, be-all. But it's certainly not matching up with the idea of an Ohtani runaway like the argument implies. How much more value do you want to give him in order for it to be accurate?
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That may be an argument
someone has made, but it certainly wasn't me. I've got him in front of Judge, but I absolutely never said it was by a wide margin (much less a runaway margin).
The entire concept of "using WAR to judge the 'value' of a player" just falls apart, for me, when you're looking at a true two-way player. In the real world, you know for an absolute fact that you
can't replace Ohtani with another two-way player. There just IS no "replacement player" to validly compare him against. Calculating his WAR as if he was a position player and his WAR as if he was a pitcher and just adding the two numbers together is, to me, just way too simplistic.