One of the great thrills of sports is watching a player who is, to use the cliché, in the zone. It’s incredible to just watch them go, to see how powerful confidence and self-assurance can be. Over the weekend, Mike Schur, Nick Offerman and I watched the Cubs’ Nicholas Castellanos hit doubles. It was something.
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Joe - pondering last night the macro implications of WAR and thought it might be a great rabbit hole down which you could go. Basically: does WAR play out across teams in ways that make sense? If we total up a team's WARs do we get a sense of their won-loss record, where we might imagine a 0 team WAR is .500? And Mike Trout, for example, playing with 24 other 0 WAR players, would put a team at 86, 90, or whatever wins? Acknowledging the need to figure out if an average major leaguer is really a 0, account for injuries, etc. Worth looking at some all-time great and all-time bad teams and how it plays out?