Friday Rewind: WAR, What Is It Good For?

Tom Tango threw out a question the other day that — as usually goes with Tom’s great questions — led me to think about something entirely different.

Tom’s question was this: Was the 2001 Baseball Hall of Fame ballot the most “anti-sabermetrics ballot ever”?

On the surface, that’s a fairly straightforward question. If I were the sort of person who underst…