to go back to the original mantle vs. hornsby example:
I looked at wRC+ at fangraphs and was very surprised that they are both at 171. so actually mantle looks better with that stat than with OPS+ which has him 4 points back.
But I think this is not because of the xBHs. slugging does overrate XBHs (we can discuss about linear weights being correctly but nobody who is sane will think that a HR is worth 4 times as many runs as a single
) but at the same time it also underrates walks (doesn't count them so that a walk is only included in the OBP component).
I looked at wRC+ at fangraphs and was very surprised that they are both at 171. so actually mantle looks better with that stat than with OPS+ which has him 4 points back.
But I think this is not because of the xBHs. slugging does overrate XBHs (we can discuss about linear weights being correctly but nobody who is sane will think that a HR is worth 4 times as many runs as a single

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