Eddie Mathews Has been fired from Atlanta for the due to medical…
The best stat to determine a player’s worth is WAR–wins above replacement–an analytical metric that was not available until relatively recently. The formula for WAR differs for position players and pitchers, and I’ll lay it out in layman’s terms. WAR uses every aspect of the game– batting, baserunning, and fielding, factors in position and ballpark and determines how many wins better than a league average player an individual player might be. Using WAR to help us rank them, let’s look at the top 24 players in the history of the Atlanta Braves franchise, which has seen them call places like Boston and Milwaukee home before landing in Georgia for good.