re: Unbelievable stats for Kling and Milazzo today on Upon Further Review

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I am the only person on earth that cares Kling is hitting .170 seems to be alot of people on this thread and others talking about his lack of hitting some say he should play and hit 9th others say he should be benched but just about everyone agrees his hitting is atrocious.

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you're the only person dumb enough to be more focused on what his season long stats are as opposed to what his more recent stats are when determining who should be in the lineup right now. Baseball is not linear like that. I'm sorry, it just isn't. A guy could still have very good season long stats but go through a massive slump and might not need to be playing. Conversely, another guy has a terrible start and has a big improvement and maybe he should be playing. But you want to look at everything in a vacuum and have decided that what someone did from day 1 to present is indicative as to how well someone is playing right now. It's just not.

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you pulling stats out using date ranges and just to fit your specific argument.

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He's not just pulling random date ranges. He's pulling date ranges from recent weeks, i.e. how someone has been hitting right now, which is what matters when constructing a lineup right now