the thing is the WAR system is meant to account for wins by summing the contributions of the individual players...a combination of Maddux and his catcher sums to a certain amount...if the catcher gets more because of refinements in defensive metrics, whatever you give the catcher has to come out of somewhere
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Correction on my earlier post. I misread the chart. Huddy JJ and Hanson were 3 of the largest WAR decreases. Apologies for the confusion.
jpx7 (03-20-2019)
We forget that McCann was an elite catcher in the past. Isn't his 5/85 deal with the Yanks still the largest free agent contract for a catcher?
jpx7 (03-20-2019)