The War Against WAR

Mike Trout has already assembled a better career than Eddie Murray. If this statement seems a bit suspect to you, well, you’re not alone. I concur with you. But there’s one massive, tidy, all-encompassing statistic called WAR which insists that Trout has accomplished just such a feat. And if we quibble over the veracity of this stat, proponents of WAR will tell us, then we are old school dunderheads.