re: MLB Trade Deadline News: Mets get Cespedes, Cubs Hunter Padres LOL

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Nobody was talking about winning awards and the arbitrary rules to qualify. He has the 6th lowest ERA in the AL. That's just the facts.

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Well, either you play by the rules, or you accept that he's nowhere fricking close to the 6th lowest ERA in the AL, because if you throw out the qualifiers, he has the 66th best ERA. That's a fact.

And a rule that's in the MLB official rules can hardly be considered arbitrary.

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and the arbitrary rules to qualify.

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do you know what arbitrary means? Or do you now just understand the rule?


for him to qualify for an ERA title, he'll have to pitch in at least 162 innings.

for him, right now, to qualify for the league leaders in ERA, he has to have thrown 96 IP.


technically, those are the facts.