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Originally Posted by Jeffy25
What makes you believe that scouting is an empirically better tool? Every single MLB organization believes both are necessary and useful.
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Because I’ve done the former. And like I say, without it, there are not major leaguers... or minor leaguers.....WAR and the other sabremetric stats are an attempt to add to the picture. It is my belief that it has clouded the picture for a lot of teams.
Again, telling me that teams use it is like arguing that the sun is hot. I agree they use it. I stipulate that they like it.
I think it hurts them more often than it helps. Agents love it though. Teams love it too, for the same reason. I’ll give you that. Nothing makes life easier than an arbitrator who loves WAR and sabremetric stuff. If you think that’s not the case, you don’t understand the business. For
most players, WAR tells you nothing useful.
You can’t build a team on it unless you have infinite money. You have no way to distinguish the majority of players with WAR, etc.
Besides, the obvious thing is: You don’t get to argue about this if there isn’t something before it. It’s kind of fun to see people pretend that this isn’t the case.
But I’ll stop now.