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Friday, July 23, 2010
If I was a ballplayer, I’d be…
Brian Bannister? Dude just said the same things I’ve just said:
6. What’s the most overrated stat?
BB: It’s a toss-up for me between wins and batting average. … Just because you hit .300 - if you have a .300 on-base percentage and .300 slugging percentage, it wasn’t a good year. It’s very deceiving. Now, there’s a lot of hitters, like a Miguel Cabrera or a Joe Mauer, where there’s a lot to go along with the average, but it’s the one stat that you’ll see everywhere, every time on every scoreboard, every newspaper, regardless.
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8. If you could change one rule to make baseball better, what would it be?BB: I would like, it falls into that problem of changing history, but I wish wins could be based on the quality of the outing, instead of just being the one that left the game when your team went up by a run. I wish there was some way to quantify the production of a pitcher instead of just wins and losses. So, if there was a way to change the rule on wins into some kind of conversion, or wins above replacement, I would much rather have it that way.
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It’s ridiculous, but there’s no way to change it, because you’d be changing the whole history of baseball. … It’s like taking back Social Security - it’s probably not going to happen, even though it would probably benefit a lot of people in the long run.
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