THE BOOK--Playing The Percentages In Baseball

Monday, September 14, 2009

CF talent

Dave expresses the idea that MLB is filled with CF talent.

Of course, there will be some people out there that will set the value point of the average CF to be identical to the average LF, 2B, and DH.  I don’t listen to those people, any more than I would listen to someone set the same value point for a college shortstop and college second baseman, or average QB and average DT, or average NHL center and average NHL winger.  Only in baseball (among saberists) is the idea even discussed.

It is, I think, one of the black eyes saberists have to show in their quest to illuminating the game through numbers.  The other black eye is thinking that the sac bunt is always bad.