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Originally Posted by Cynical
A lot of the information in this guide contradicts modern sabermetric wisdom.
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I know it does. The original poster knows nothing about baseball and asked for basic help/general lnowledge. Reading The Book or Fangraphs is not where you start, this guide is full of basic explanations and jargon and can be read in minutes. He has the rest of his life to master VORP and WAR and DRS and a thousand other formulae and acronyms, and despite endless lectures many casual fans never become interested in sabermetrics.
I once saw Mark Canha's college coach tell him to bunt with the bases loaded, and another time during the same game. You can't understand why Dave Esquer is dumb unless you know why he's doing things in the first place.