Last week, we examined the five players that generated the highest WAR in the New York Yankees’ history, covering only position players. This time, we will discuss the top five performers on the mound.
As a reminder, we will use FanGraphs’ version of WAR and not Baseball Reference’s. The folks at Beyond The Box Score can help us explain the difference between the two:
The two most widely-used flavors of WAR come from Baseball-Reference (rWAR) and FanGraphs (fWAR) and have key differences in their calculations. Most glaringly, FanGraphs uses FIP as the basis of its pitching evaluation, while Baseball-Reference relies on a context-neutralized version of Runs Allowed.