Burnes Baby Burnes

Some years ago, I wrote about how I’d love to be the Jimmy Carter peace broker on WAR. As you know, two of our favorite baseball stat sites — Baseball-Reference and FanGraphs — use “Wins Above Replacement” as their one-stop-shopping statistic. But the two WARs are different in a variety of ways. It seemed to me then to be confusing and unhelpful: If you…