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January 9, 2007, 01:17 PM ET
Reliever Adjusted JAWS

by Jay Jaffe

Will Rich Gossage be elected to the Hall of Fame this year? We’ll know in the next hour. In the meantime, I wanted to present an expanded list of the Reliever Adjusted JAWS rankings from today’s article on the ballot’s pitchers. This list is somewhat provisional as it only goes back to 1960 (pitchers whose careers include pre-1960 seasons are designated with an asterisk). It includes every pitcher I could cull with a RAJAWS above 50.0, but in order to be flagged a pitcher either had to rank in the top 50 JAWS scores among pitchers who accumulated more than half their WARP in relief (and thus show up as a reliever in my master JAWS file) or have 25.0 career Reliever Expected Wins Added (WXRL), so some may have slipped through the cracks. The formula for RAJAWS is (JAWS + 0.5*WXRL), where JAWS is a the average of a pitcher’s career WARP3 (subject to an adjustment for AL pitchers in the DH era) and seven best season WARP3.

NAME              Career   Peak   JAWS   WXRL   RAJAWS
Dennis Eckersley   120.7   54.2   87.5   35.0   105.0
Mariano Rivera      84.8   60.0   72.4   59.1   101.9
Rich Gossage        87.9   55.2   71.6   54.0    98.5
Trevor Hoffman      77.1   49.3   63.2   59.7    93.0
Hoyt Wilhelm        96.7   47.9   72.3   33.1    88.9*
Lee Smith           82.3   46.5   64.4   47.4    88.1
Rollie Fingers      80.0   49.7   64.9   46.1    87.9
John Franco         80.0   40.3   60.2   45.1    82.8
Tom Gordon          80.6   44.6   62.6   32.4    78.8
Billy Wagner        61.2   48.8   55.0   41.4    75.7
Doug Jones          66.1   48.2   57.2   33.1    73.8
Roberto Hernandez   67.8   46.8   57.3   29.3    71.9
Bruce Sutter        58.0   46.6   52.3   37.6    71.1
Lindy McDaniel      70.0   43.3   56.7   27.0    70.2*
John Wetteland      58.1   46.0   52.1   35.4    69.8
Tom Henke           59.6   42.4   51.0   36.9    69.4
Mike Marshall       62.6   52.2   57.4   23.6    69.2
Tug McGraw          57.8   37.1   47.5   39.9    67.4
Randy Myers         55.7   40.0   47.9   39.0    67.4
Dan Quisenberry     52.9   46.5   49.7   34.0    66.7
Stu Miller          61.6   42.8   52.2   28.9    66.6*
Kent Tekulve        62.7   39.0   50.9   30.7    66.2
Robb Nen            54.2   46.0   50.1   32.0    66.1
Jesse Orosco        61.4   36.9   49.2   33.5    66.0
Armando Benitez     52.1   40.8   46.5   38.4    65.7
Jose Mesa           59.8   40.2   50.0   29.5    64.7
John Hiller         59.4   48.0   53.7   21.9    64.6
Jeff Montgomery     56.9   43.5   50.2   28.7    64.5
Jeff Reardon        60.5   35.6   48.1   31.4    63.8
Dave Righetti       58.1   43.5   50.8   25.9    63.8
Sparky Lyle         59.3   39.7   49.5   27.7    63.3
Troy Percival       49.7   38.2   44.0   37.5    62.8
Keith Foulke        46.4   42.8   44.6   35.4    62.3
Todd Jones          48.9   34.7   41.8   36.4    60.0
Mike Jackson        53.6   32.2   42.9   34.0    59.9
Bob Wickman         53.2   37.3   45.3   28.4    59.5
Gene Garber         59.4   37.2   48.3   21.2    58.9
Ron Perranoski      45.4   39.2   42.3   26.6    55.6
Roy Face            56.8   38.5   47.7   15.8    55.5*
Ugueth Urbina       46.4   38.8   42.6   25.1    55.2
Rod Beck            44.6   34.7   39.7   27.4    53.4
Gary LaVelle        49.2   37.1   43.2   18.9    52.6
Steve Bedrosian     45.6   33.3   39.5   25.3    52.2
Todd Worrell        41.4   36.3   38.9   26.4    52.1
Greg Minton         42.2   33.4   37.8   28.1    51.8
Jeff Shaw           41.0   36.0   38.5   25.9    51.4
Mike Timlin         53.3   32.1   42.7   17.0    51.2
Don McMahon         52.8   32.8   42.8   16.6    51.1*
Clay Carroll        44.9   33.8   39.4   22.7    50.7

Note that Mike Marshall was not included in the original article, which only presented a Top 20.

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