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Originally Posted by StyxNCa
I have never looked at any sabermetric stat in my life and yet I know as much about players and their value as anyone who comes to their conclusion of a player by poring over those sabermetrics. I wonder how that's possible.
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It's not. A lot of what you think you know is wrong. Because what you know is influenced by biases and other factors you aren't even aware of from just seeing things with your eyes (for example, park effects).
That's not a knock against you, it's true of everyone. It's true of people who use sabermetrics of course too but that's part of the reason for using them, we understand that that's the case and are willing to use other tools to give us more knowledge.
True knowledge comes from knowing you don't have all the answers and that a different way of looking at things can fill in the gaps.