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The Jaffe Wins Above Replacement Score, commonly abbreviated JAWS, is a sabermetric baseball statistic developed to evaluate the strength of a player's career and merit for induction into the Baseball Hall of Fame.
Jay Jaffe, a writer for Baseball Prospectus and a member of the Baseball Writers' Association of America, adapted WAR for a statistic he developed in 2004 called "Jaffe Wins Above Replacement Score," or JAWS. The metric averages a player's career WAR with their seven-year peak WAR (not necessarily consecutive years).
A College World Series hero who collected best friends like base hits, attorney Jay Jaffe batted leadoff at USC alumni games for nearly 50 years.
After the 1992 season, he played collegiate summer baseball with the Brewster Whitecaps of the Cape Cod Baseball League (CCBL), was named the league's outstanding pro prospect, and is a member of the CCBL Hall of Fame class of 2022. [5] [6] [7] In 2012, Wagner was inducted into the Virginia Sports Hall of Fame.
He also has a 54.6 JAWS (Jaffe Wins Above Replacement Score, developed by Jay Jaffe, which measures a player's worthiness for enshrinement), and the average HOF left fielder is at 53.4.
Why Baseball Hall of Fame discourse is so toxic. Jay Van Bavel is an associate professor of psychology and neural science at NYU ... “I think the debates are supposed to be fun,” Jaffe says ...
Jaffe Wins Above Replacement Score (JAWS) – a metric "invented by Jay Jaffe to assess a player's worthiness for enshrinement in the Hall of Fame." [60] Pitcher Abuse Points (PAP) – a measure of the impact of a particular start by a pitcher on his arm, based on pitch count. [61]
The plaque gallery at the Baseball Hall of Fame Ty Cobb's plaque at the Baseball Hall of Fame. The National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum in Cooperstown, New York, honors individuals who have excelled in playing, managing, and serving the sport, and is the central point for the study of the history of baseball in the United States and beyond, displaying baseball-related artifacts and exhibits.