When you go down an internet rabbit hole, you can’t be entirely sure what is going to be on the other side. When the corner of the internet that you enter involves the intersection of Baseball Reference and Fangraphs looking at baseball statistics, that is doubly true. Baseball will surprise you.
It came as no surprise that Shohei Ohtani was the 2024 WPA leader. So I knew where I’d start looking for some offseason discussion. I suspected my second stop was going to be in New York with Aaron Judge and the Yankees. I’d have been wrong. Judge did have the highest WPA among AL batters.