Almost to the midway point of the 2025 season, Gunnar Henderson will be entering arbitration for the upcomingb 2026 season. Henderson was compared to similarly decorated shortstops from the 2019 season, and his projected salary total would be in the $5-5.3 million range.
This was a class project for sports analytics. I created a statistic that quantifies the quality of a starting pitcher’s workload. In this presentation, I break down the relevant statistics, what they mean, and plug them into a formula I created which is called “zWAR.” The players I selected were the pitchers voted in the top 5 Cy Young voting from the 2024 season, and how their workload compared to each other.
4/17/2025: Spray chart from bottom of the 7th, Georgetown scores 3 runs