Don't think I've seen this posted anywhere here yet, a broadside from Bill James in the wake of the Altuve/Judge MVP discussion about how WAR connects to runs, not wins, which we all knew but James points out that when a MVP candidate is on a team that finishes way below their projected Pythagorean record (Judge/Yankees), their WAR should be docked correspondingly.
"Look, there is a general relationship between runs and wins, a normal relationship, and there is a specific relationship, based on this specific player and this specific team. If you evaluate Altuve and Judge by the general and normal relationship of runs to wins, then it appears that Judge is almost even with Altuve. But if you evaluate them by the specific relationship of Altuve’s runs to the Astros wins and Judge’s runs to the Yankees wins, then Altuve moves up and Judge moves down, and a significant gap opens up between—large enough, in fact, that Judge drops out of the #2 spot, dropping behind Eric Hosmer of Kansas City."
https://www.billjamesonline.com/judge_and_altuve/
"Look, there is a general relationship between runs and wins, a normal relationship, and there is a specific relationship, based on this specific player and this specific team. If you evaluate Altuve and Judge by the general and normal relationship of runs to wins, then it appears that Judge is almost even with Altuve. But if you evaluate them by the specific relationship of Altuve’s runs to the Astros wins and Judge’s runs to the Yankees wins, then Altuve moves up and Judge moves down, and a significant gap opens up between—large enough, in fact, that Judge drops out of the #2 spot, dropping behind Eric Hosmer of Kansas City."
https://www.billjamesonline.com/judge_and_altuve/