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Old 02-01-2013, 03:00 PM   #58
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Originally Posted by tomwolf2008 View Post
Traditional Stats are used to record what has happened. Sabermetrics stats are mainly used (and quite good at) project what can happen. They are used to do different things and shouldn't be compare to each other.
What? No. Plenty of folks see someone who hit 33 homers last year and assume that's what he's going to do going forward, and most sabermetric stats are quite good at putting into context and evaluating what happened last year.
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