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Originally Posted by Rain King
He had a season with 999.2, two more over 900. Why is 1,000 the arbitrary number that matters?
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Because that is what, based upon my subjective opinion, is a full time load for a professional catcher. It is subjective. But look! I told you in words why it is so.
I didn’t say something like “because the CERA+/FIPxJAWWARrc says so”
I could create such a “metric” but it would be a made up thing. I choose instead to use words, based upon experiences and my personal opinion.
Our objection is that you refuse to admit or even acknowledge that all of these so called metrics you’re citing in your circular argument of hes a HOF because of x metric” is every bit as subjective or more. In a similar way, you’re obsessed with continuing to maintain that Maurer is a catcher and comparing him to catchers for purposes of determining if he is one of the greatest baseball players the universe has ever seen...which is what the HOF player should be....whether it is for doing something that had never ever been done before (Ferrell) or doing something so well, that the chances of it being done again are very small (George Brett, Robin Yount), etc.
Arguing that bathing average is not objective, by the way, indicates a lack of understanding of what subjective and objective mean. Batting Average cannot be subjective. It is a provable fact. WAR is by definition subjective or else one mans WAR computation (Say Baseball Prospectus) would be the same as another (say Fangraphs). It also cannot be objective, because it’s designed to take defenses and position into account, both of which are completely subjective evaluations despite what you want to believe.