Despite a few small dips in productivity and another much larger one earlier in May, as per Fangraphs, San Diego Padres’ rookie third baseman Christian Villanueva still has the highest wins above replacement value of any other Friar on the team (0.9).
It is by no means a runaway, though. Travis Jankowski (0.9 WAR) is tied with him, and Eric Hosmer (0.8) sits justs behind them. That goes to show you just how intricate of a statistic WAR truly is.
The fickle nature of the WAR stat is that it puts an all-inclusive.