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Originally Posted by StyxNCa
My guess is people who need all these newfangled stats in the real world, for some reason, are either unable to figure things out by what they see from players...
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Well, of course. Nobody can. The human mind isn't set up to contextualize thousands of bits of data about each of hundreds of baseball players, very few of whom any one person can see more than a trivial bit of their playing time.
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...or they just don't believe what their eyes are showing them.
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Nor should they. Lest one start to think that the guy with the sweetest swing is the most valuable, the guy who dives most has the best glove, and he who pitches in Colorado is always a bum.