The description Story said he’s chasing as a player is the same one that DeJong used for his goal: “complete.”

For a long time, baseball had a paint-by-numbers way of describing that kind of player. Check his errors. Consider his position. Count his homers. How many steals? To measure the sharpness of a player’s five tools there were plenty of dull stats. The analytics revolution has given new ways to measure and value players, and out of that mix a statistical alloy has emerged to help define the “complete” contribution to a team from an individual player. Wins Above Replacement (WAR) is the fusion of all elements of the game through the prism of runs. How many runs a player creates with his bat and his baserunning are measured along with how many runs his defense prevents. These numbers are compared against peers, adjusted for the league, and combined. With the reference that 10 runs is the equivalent of 1.0 win, then simple division reveals the player’s Wins Above Replacement.

The ability “to embrace it shows that there are guys who affect the game in many ways other than hitting .350 or hitting 40 homers,” said Boston outfielder and former AL MVP Mookie Betts. “You see a lot more names around (here) because of those type of things.”

DeJong is one of those names.