It's really surpring to me that he's only the 30th best pitcher in terms of fWAR in that stretch, at 1.1. Quintana is 13th at 1.7. Verlander is the one that is most confusing. I get all the home runs, but look at these two lines. Darvish: 62 IP, 11.32 K/9, 0.44 BB/9, 1.89 HR/9, .246 BABIP, 44.2% GB%, 23.6% HR/FB, 3.19/3.85/2.89 1.1 fWAR Verlander: 64.1 IP, 13.4 K/93, 1.12 BB/9, 1.40 HR/9, .268 BABIP, 32.9% GB%, 14.9% HR/FB, 2.38/2.71/2.76, 2.3 fWAR Verlander is better, but over twice as good? It's because fangraphs uses absolute dongs to weight FIP in their WAR calculation, and the weight is (13 * dong). So over that span Yu has 3 more dongs allowed than Verlander (13 vs 10), which gets 'disproportionately' weighted by 13, jacking up Yu's FIP to 3.85 compared to Verlanders 2.71