Description: Navigating potential trade WARs
Navigating potential trade WARs
Major League Baseball’s All-Star Game is certainly the best of its kind, the progenitor of the concept in major American sports leagues, with a history and seriousness to it that the other league’s games, where a single game played at full intensity takes more out of the player than the “pace yourself, we’re playing 162 of these” nature of baseball.
That being said, the All-Star Game is hurt by what I view as a silly belief from fans, especially fans who think of themselves as more informed, to treat the Game as just a place to put guys who had the best first halves, instead of who is actually the best at each position in terms of true-talent. That is to say, if you think of a player’s output as being their true-talent level plus-or-minus some degree of luck that evens out over the course of multiple years of games, I’m trying to select the guys who I