WAR is the modern-day baseball statistic often referenced, rarely fully understand, and usually the tie-breaker in any argument about a player’s skills. For New York Mets great Edgardo Alfonzo, it arrived a little too late.
I think Mets fans appreciate Alfonzo appropriately. It’s everyone else who may have let his career slip from their memories.
A reason for it—we didn’t know what his WAR was.
According to Baseball-Reference, Alfonzo finished with a 28.8 WAR for his career. By no means a legendary total, it’s what he did in individual seasons that caught my eye.