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Some people get too caught up on WAR, especially small differences. Just because 1 guy put up 4.5 WAR, and another guy 4.2, those are certainly close enough to think of them as roughly equivalent. And I don't think the translation from player WAR to team wins is as close as people truly believe. Like, I feel that if you replaced Springer (1.5 WAR) with Acuna (6.3 WAR) on the Jays, I would think they would be more than 5 games ahead of where they are now.
Where WAR gets tricky when you see it on sites is not mentally factoring in the positional adjustment. So you see Freddie Freeman with a big minus on the defensive side of his WAR calculation despite him being a good fielder at 1B, but that's heavily influences by the position adjustment. Or overreacting to defensive metrics. Everyone is pretty good at agreeing on how to value offense - you can have some arguments about how much to value a HR or a BB, sure. But defense still has massive error bars. Like Bobby Witt, who all the metrics agreed was terrible defensively last year:
UZR ranks him as basically an average SS this year. DRS has him as slightly above average (+2 DRS. Statcast Outs above Average ranks him as fantastic (+13). Which defensive metric you choose to believe will have a major impact on his WAR on the season.
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