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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