WAR Ruins Joe Carter's Legacy, I Choose Not To Care

When I was growing up, I loved reading baseball boxscores. I was a stat junkie, particularly when it came to my Blue Jays, in a simpler time before the WAR. WAR stands for "wins above replacement", and it is used to show how many more wins a player would give a team as opposed to a "replacement level", or minor league/bench player at that position. I don't know when WAR showed up, but Tom Cheek never mentioned it once. WAR isn't very kind to Joe Carter, a player celebrated here in Toronto for his ability to hit 30+ homers and deliver 100+ RBIs like clockwork. Baseball-Reference.com listed the worst 100 RBI seasons by WAR and Joe Carter dominated the list. Dante Bichette Ruben Sierra Joe Carter Tony Armas Joe Carter Eddie Robinson Joe Carter Joe Pepitone George Bell Bill Buckner That's our Joe holding down 3 of the top 7 spots. That's 3 seasons when Joe Carter's team would have won more games by replacing him with a minor-league...