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Monday, March 16, 2009
Christy Mathewson was a sabermetrician
Patriot quotes an FC Lane (the father of Linear Weights) book:
On such occasions a pitcher is said to have a poor inning, whereas he may have been at his very best in that unlucky frame. But the accumulated chances were precipitated on him all at once.--Christy Mathewson
A hall of famer pitcher stating that he was at his best, and pure bad luck contributed to a bad inning? Blasphemy. However, he got his nose out of his abacus and played the game… where the hell can we send him now?
Patriot himself says the apt quote when he concludes elsewhere:
The only difference is that each previous generation attempts to enshrine itself as the paragon of virtue and moral superiority.
That fits my defintion of The Holy Writers to a tee. Let us hope that Posnanski, Neyer, and Law won’t be assimilated into the collective when their time comes.
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