| I agree with those who want to get rid of the ridiculously complicated stats. I am, of course, referring to the third stat listed, led by Cobb -- the number you get when you take the number of times a guy reaches base by putting the ball in play (unless one of the runners is tagged out or an “official scorer” thinks the defense screwed up, in which case let’s pretend the guy was actually out), then divide that number by the number of times he came to the plate -- but we’ll ignore any time he ended up walking, getting hit by a pitch, hitting a fly ball that allowed a runner to tag up and score (but not if the runner only reaches second or third), bunting a player to another base if the batter gets out (but we’ll count the plate appearance if the batter makes it to first, or if he moved the runner up by any means other than a bunt), and interference. What's that supposed to measure?
WAR, of course, should stay. |
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