Yeah...how dare I actually use stats to verify my argument. Mercy me. I am bringing hard hitting analysis to the board here. Sorry that I have disrupted your preconceived views on who is good and who isn't.
Now tell me again how good Brian Shaw is.
Ummm... no offense but my grandma is a harder hitter than your stats are.
I guess you don’t know what sabermetrics are? If you talk to anyone who knows stats in baseball, they have 20-30 different stats they look at to evaluate almost every player plus using the eye test.
I mean looking at hitters, you have your batting average, OBP%, Slugging %, OPS, then some people go into contact rate, strikeout rate, ISO, WAR, etc.
If you want to to really bring hard hitting stats to the table then put those stats in your lineup otherwise you will never win a single argument in this chat especially against way more knowledgeable people.
Heck not everyone on this board even likes me, but at the same time the guys you are going after, I at least respect what they have to say since they know what they are talking about. Don’t call yourself a statman and then only say one stat and that’s it. At least in real life I have coached multiple sports and was a head coach of a kids swim team.
Hopefully you don’t stay thickheaded and stubborn and look at how you perceive things since you are only reading from a children’s book about stats, and not actually looking at the college version like b00bie and some others do.