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Originally Posted by Russ
Let's take a look at two players in an imaginary game:
Player A:
1st AB, bases loaded: K
2nd AB, bases empty: Home Run
Player B:
1st AB, bases loaded: Home Run
2nd AB, bases empty: K
Who's more valuable to his team this game, this series, this season? It's an underlying foundation of VORP to ignore situations because it's out of the player's control, but it also ignores wasted opportunities.
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Even the 4RBI v 1RBI comparison is situationally vague.
What if Player A's 2nd AB is in the bottom of the 9th with a tie-score, and player B's 1st AB is in the 7th inning with a 10 run lead?
Who then is more valuable? I know that sabremetrics don't deal with that either but then neither does just raw stats like that.