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  1. User Name
    You're taking what i said out of context. I said that looking at it as "walk vs hit" instead of "BA vs OBP" is simplistic. On the other point, i still don't see how batting average isn't nearly useless. You just said so yourself, there are a ton of metrics that are better.
  2. User Name
    Nice avatar, bitch tits.
  3. User Name
    To clarify, i say that the "hit vs walk" argument is simplistic because it seems to have been forgotten here that a hit does indeed raise OBP along with batting average.
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    The argument, however, doesn't boil down to "single vs walk". That's a simplistic way of looking at it. The debate is BA vs OBP and it's a no-contest in terms of measuring correlation regarding to run-scoring. Batting average, by itself, is a terrible tool to evaluate hitter productivity, since all it tells you is the amount of hits someone got over a certain number of at-bats. It doesn't tell you how many times he got on base overall, the type of hit, or if it did in any way lead to run-scoring. It's just a very incomplete statistic. RJ, Bell, can you either of you give me a sound argument where batting average is a better measure of overall hitter productivity than any other decent measurement ? Because i don't see it.
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    "Nearly useless". And a single isn't always more valuable to moving runners. In fact, in most cases, a single is only going to move a runner a base at a time. Again, batting average is outclassed by most other offense-measuring stats because not only is it a component of another statistic, but its usefulness is very limited. A hitter can be quite useful with low BA but good OBP, but it's almost never the case the other way around. The more limited a stat is, the less useful.
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    Because it's a component of a much more useful stat: OBP. OBP and slugging are the two factors that most directly affect run scoring. A guy that hits .220 with a .340 OBP and lots of power production is always going to be more valuable than the guy who hits a lot of singles but doesn't walk or hit for power. Batting average, by itself, only tells you whether a guy is hitting singles. That's nearly useless.
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    It may be just me, but i think the world as a whole has more people than the US, regardless of broadcast times......
  8. User Name
    That's because batting average is a terrible tool for evaluating a hitter's production.
  9. User Name
    lol
  10. User Name
    Eduardo Nunez......lol
  11. User Name
    Ban Jacko plz
  12. User Name
    Jacko, where's the GT?
  13. User Name
    But James Andrews, who is one of the top authorities in pitcher injuries and anatomy has suggested that the recent trend of pitcher injuries has an explanation: Pitchers are throwing too much (year-round baseball) and too many breaking pitches too young. It makes sense, because they are stressing underdeveloped muscles significantly and increasing both the short and long-term injury potential of an inherently risky activity. That explanation both makes more sense, and directly correlates with the increase of year-long baseball activities and baseball specialization than the idiocy of "pitchers today are pussies" or "they're watching too much video".
  14. User Name
    This is literally the dumbest thing i've ever read.
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    Two things: 1) Raw stats don't always tell everything about reliever performances, especially in small samples. 2) Girardi is terrible at BP management and tends to make his relief corps look worse than they actually are. In the Yankees' case, i am leaning towards number two. Girardi's ineptitude is literally costing the Yankees ground in the standings.
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    The fact that Girardi's a terrible bullpen manager doesn't help the Yankees either.
  17. User Name
    It hasn't been a month yet.
  18. User Name
    If you were the Cubs, would you sell him as a #3? No, you'd sell him as the #1 he's pitching like right now.
  19. User Name
    He's unproven? He's been in the league for almost seven years, and this is his third year as a starter
  20. User Name
    Hasn't Betts been shagging balls in the OF already?
  21. User Name
    He apparently hasn't read any comments section in NFL.com either. The whining/support posts are mind-boggling.
  22. User Name
    Create GT plz.
  23. User Name
    They have pitching. It's on the DL.
  24. User Name
    Because they own Lackey.
  25. User Name
    Xander and JBJ are going to need more time to adjust to MLB-level breaking stuff. Gotta live through them growing pains.
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