Intangibles are great, sure, but what’s his WAR? Wins Above Replacement has become a deciding factor among baseball executives mulling over who to keep, who to shop and what price is right.

Here is a position-by-position breakdown of the 2024-25 free-agent class. Players are grouped by position and ranked by their FanGraphs wins above replacement total across 2023-24. Each player's 2025 ...

Dominant 20: Why Mike Trout was still the toughest out in baseball in 2018 MLB's best player had his best season yet in 2018. Mike Trout -- No. 20 on ESPN the Magazine's list of the year's top ...

Often times you may hear baseball fans, analysts, and scouts discuss an individual player's WAR — his wins above replacement. In the modern age of the game WAR has become one of the most ...

Wins Above Replacement, or WAR, tell us how many wins a player contributed above a replacement-level player. Basically, it helps paint the picture of just how much a specific player contributed to ...

Judge led the majors in homers (58), RBIs (144), OPS (1.159) and FanGraphs wins above replacement (11.2) in a 2024 season that saw the 6-foot-7, 282-pound slugger spend most of his time in center ...

Only a handful of rotations across MLB are three-deep in quality starters, much less the five the Phillies have put together. What's the ceiling for this staff?

Based on the Wins Above Replacement of those joining the team versus those leaving, we can draw one conclusion. The Reds offseason has been slightly less interesting, so far, than we had hoped it ...

His wins above replacement of 5.9 — a sabermetric stat used as a catch-all for a player’s overall value — was tied for fifth best among all pitchers. On the defensive side, Fried ranked ...

He actually has the second-highest wins above replacement of any new player entering the ballot next year as shared by The Athletic's C. Trent Rosecrans. "Left-hander Cole Hamels and outfielder ...