There’s a second helping of the Extra Innings podcast this week with special guest Jay Jaffe of Sports Illustrated.
For those of you unfamiliar, Jaffe writes about all things baseball for the publication and website, but he specializes in the Baseball Hall of Fame and examining the accomplishments and resume of the candidates on the current year’s ballots. It all started out with a post on his old blog “The Futility Infielder,” then moved to Baseball Prospectus and now to Sports Illustrated. In his analysis, he has developed his own personal system of measurement — the Jaffe WAR Score, which is a metric “that facilitates the comparison of Hall of Fame candidates with those already enshrined at their position, using Wins Above Replacement to capture both defensive value as well as offensive value and to account for the wide variations in scoring that have occurred throughout baseball history.