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Tuesday, June 09, 2009

Two-thirds of what I’ve been asking for is double what I want

By Tangotiger, 11:18 AM

This exchange between Poz and Bill James is more like it.

At the same time, the awareness of “doing whatever you can to get on base”, among some hitters and some teams, was much more “naked” than it is now. In modern baseball it is considered bad form to specialize in walking, and nobody really does. But if you go back to 1900, 1910, 1920, there were a certain number of players—one or two on each team—who very clearly understood that their job was to get on base any way they could for the big hitters on the team. These people walked 115 times a year in large part BECAUSE nobody was paying attention to how often they walked.

Starting in 1901:

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