The end result is that this update significantly lowered the bar to clear for replacement level offensive performances while little changed on the pitching side. Almost all hitters received a boost to their PAR total. For guys who were on the major league roster for the entire season, this came out to about a 1/4 point increase for almost everybody. The league total Batting PAR increased by a whopping 50 points. I am certain this is the largest league total increase ever for this post-season update. Despite that, the league Batting PAR is *still* at a historic (excluding '20) low 85 points. In a completely consistent statistical environment, you would expect a league total of 225 batting and pitching PAR. On the pitching side, players did receive modest bumps or drops. But cumulatively, the league Pitching PAR total barely moved: increasing by 1 point. So the end result was almost exactly what I was expecting.
On an individual player level, not too much sticks out to me. Unlike last year, there wasn't a major shakeup in the batting or pitching PAR rankings. Interestingly, Aaron Judge was one of the few hitters who saw his PAR decrease (by 0.4 points). That is interesting because I imagine if I were to run these calculations using *only* 2022 data, his PAR would absolutely skyrocket because he was such an outlier in a very low offensive output environment. Despite this slight decrease, he still blows away the rest of the league by almost 5 points. And his 12.2 PAR remains a single season Batting PAR record in seasons that have been calculated (2005-present). Justin Verlander (14.
