So what's the actual, real WAR on a guy who hits .200 with no power, except hits 500 ft walk off homers every time he is presented with the opportunity?
He's legitimately won us 2 games on walk offs, and played stellar D while being completely useless at the plate when the game isn't on the line.
Baseball fans are numbers nerds and have a number for everything. Maybe WOAR (Walk offs above replacement) can be a new stat.
Not surprisingly, one of those numbers nerds has already created that stat. It's called WPA - win probability added. Last night, he racked up .492 WPA in one game - implying that the Nationals had essentially a 50/50 shot at that game without his contribution, and that he turned it into a win. His other walkoff gave him .316 WPA that game. But other than those and a couple multi-hit games that ended up slightly on the positive side of the ledger, each game has been a negative WPA (see it here:
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/gl.fcgi?id=schwaky01&t=b&year=2021).
The end result is that he's been worth 0.374 WPA over the year, which should correlate to a little more than a third of a win better than if he wasn't there (For comparison, Bell has been at -.690 and Scherzer at a positive .563). Because Schwarber's few contributions have been so timely, that rates him as more valuable than his WAR (0.1) because WAR doesn't account for situations.
Seems about right to me from the eye test. He's sucked most of the time and has been a mild negative in most games. But two walkoff are still two walkoffs.