A few years back, in an attempt to retroactively eyeball the star power of World Series teams, I came up with a goofy stat called the "Erstad Score," whereby you simply multiply a World Series player's seasonal Wins Above Replacement (WAR) by what he ended up with in his career.

So named for Darin Erstad, whose 2002 total of 6.3 WAR multiplied by his career # of 32.3 gave the Angels one of the lowest championship-team-leading scores (203) that you will ever damn see. There were 5 guys who had more on the 1977 Yankees.

Not to punk on Ersty! Consider that maybe 35 players in a normal season will have 5 WAR. Some 160 players since 1900 have put up career WAR of 60+, and most of those are in the Hall of Fame. 5 x 60 is an All-Star season from a borderline Hall of Famer, and gets you just 300.

Anyhoo, this thing has more use after all the players are retired, but it can be fun during a Game 1 blowout to apply it in real time to the existing teams, and also wonder which of the young players might turn out to have the kind of careers to run up a good Erstad Score later.

I’ll adjust 2020 coronavirus WAR totals by multiplying by 2.7, but otherwise leave career totals as is. What do we prematurely see in 2020 World Series star power, vis-à-vis the Erstad Scores of unretired players? Whole lotta Mookie & Kershaw, and basically nada from the Rays.