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Giants collective WAR

nateistheshi

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Giants WAR courtesy of fangraphs for the season (guys who made a contribution of 0.0 I left off)

Batting/Fielding WAR:

Andres Torres 6.0
Aubrey Huff 5.7
Buster Posey 3.9
Juan Uribe 3.2
Pat Burrell 2.7
Freddy Sanchez 2.7
Pablo Sandoval 1.9
Edgar Renteria 1.3
Eli Whiteside 0.7
Nate Schierholtz 0.5
Aaron Rowand 0.5
Matt Downs 0.4
Benjie Molina 0.3
Travis Ishakawa 0.3
Jose Guillen 0.2
Cody Ross 0.2
Denny Bautista (haha!) 0.1
Joe Martinez -0.1
Brian Wilson -0.1
John Bowker -0.2
Mike Fontenot -0.3
Madison Bumgarner -0.3
Todd Wellemeyer -0.3
Mark Derosa -0.3
Johnathan Sanchez -0.7
Barry Zito -0.9
Matt Cain -1.1
Tim Lincecum -1.1
Total Hitting/Fielding WAR = 25.4 (pitchers hitting included)
excluding the hitting of the pitchers = 29.9

Pitchers:

Tim Lincecum 5.1
Matt Cain 4.0
Brian Wilson 2.7
Johnathan Sanchez 2.6
Barry Zito 2.1
Madison Bumgarner 2.0
Sergio Romo 1.2
Santiago Casilla 0.9
Javier Lopez 0.6
Dan Runzler 0.4
Guillermo Mota 0.3
Jeremy Affeldt 0.2
Chris Ray 0.2
Ramon Ramirez 0.2
Joe Martinez -0.1
Denny Bautista -0.1
Waldis Joaquin -0.1
Brandon Medders -0.2
Todd Wellemeyer -0.6

Total pitching WAR = 21.4

Total WAR including pitchers hitting = 46.8
Total WAR without pitchers hitting = 51.3

Correct me if I'm wrong, but my understanding of WAR is that it's supposed to gauge how many wins each player is responsible for about a replacement level player. A team full of nothing but replacement level players is expected to win 50 games. So with our WAR from fangraphs, we were expected to win 96-101 games this year. Am I misconstruing the use of WAR or did this team underachieve during the regular season?
 
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