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Originally Posted by andymac
I think this is where you are off. I absolutely think that "baseball people" used to look at "hits" as being just as important as HR's, BB's & K's. In fact, they didn't even look at HR's, BB's & K's all that much. They looked at IP, Hits & E.R.A.
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I think they looked at Ks, BB, and HR, too. But they often put Hits, ERA, and to a lesser extent IP at equal weights as the TTO. It's the weighting that's at question.
And, no, McCracken's work did not say that "BABIP is not much of a stat." And no, the saber-synchophants did not go blindly nodding their heads...