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Originally Posted by Johnny Slick
...and I'm gonna have to call sample size again. He's looking bad? Fine. Don't make a statistical argument to say he's looking bad.
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I continuously find it amusing that statistics are viewed as useless by so many people, yet everyone will jump on "OMG GIAMBI IS HITTING .195". I just had a ******ed conversation with a Royals fan, trying to explain to him that part of the problem with the Royals is their refusal to recognize good players...in this case I was explaining that Calvin Pickering might be their best hitter, but he keeps getting optioned to AAA. I explained MLE's and such, and he said "statistics are dumb". Then 5 minutes later he said "wtf, he's hitting .148, how can you call that good?" .148...through 20 plate appearances...argh...