I am an "Old School" guy, and proud of it most of the time. In fact, I go so far back, I can recall when rainbows were still in black and white, and televisions were run by gas.
When it comes to selecting All-Anything teams, I always catch it from some (usually young) brainiac who tells me that I can't compare Pete Rose to Ty Cobb or Chase Utley to Nap LaJoie.
Then I am presented with comparisons beginning with lower case letters followed by all caps: wRC, wOBA, tRA, etc., ad nauseum.
The statistics I have been using since I traded in my Dinosaur, I am told, are "counting" statistics. To put it caveman style, they don't show the true picture.
ERA is more of a team stat, they tell me, than something that a pitcher has control over. What size park w ...
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