re: Not a single player in the National League is hitting .300

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Typical analytics. As with anything, those current always believe they know better than their predecessors. The game hasn't improved due to analytics and has become less entertaining. Maybe the old guys from the past knew exactly what they were doing. New does not equal better. BA was an important stat for 150+ years yet now it means nothing.

Analytics= Mike Trout. Whole bunch of pizzazz with very little substance. Hollow numbers that won exactly nothing.

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Lol

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Not a single player in the National League is hitting .300

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should have never gotten rid of the DH

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Typical analytics. As with anything, those current always believe they know better than their predecessors. The game hasn't improved due to analytics and has become less entertaining. Maybe the old guys from the past knew exactly what they were doing. New does not equal better. BA was an important stat for 150+ years yet now it means nothing.

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Huge miss, no one is getting paid to be more entertaining, if MLB wants to change rules then they can, but players and GMs are paid to win and this is how you win. Players of yesterday hit higher average because that’s what got you paid not because it was good for the game.

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There isn’t any data to suggest lower averages = more runs. I don’t know how so many people have bought into that nonsense.

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That’s because you don’t understand it

All Sabrmetrics is saying is OBP (on base percentage) is more important than batting avg not that lower ba leads to more runs. A player hitting.250 with a .400 OBP is more valuable than one hitting .300 with a .350 OBP

No, you’re just dancing around a simple fact to prove something you don’t understand.

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No, you’re just dancing around a simple fact to prove something you don’t understand.

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Lmao

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Goodness, this is just flat out wrong. Average comes at a cost to power, and power has 100% proven to be a more efficient way of scoring.

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How do you even go about proving this claim? What does hitting for "power" even mean, slugging %? Just trying to hit a HR every single at bat?

Why do we have to make baseball more complicated than it is? Every batter is different, and every at bat is different. At the end of the day, you want someone that can put the ball in play when they need to. BA is just the simplest way of beginning to demonstrate who can do that with statistics. Obviously, you would prefer to hit for more bases than less. But people aren't just stopping at first base to boost their averages just like they aren't just rounding first and only stopping when they get tagged or score.

It is a long season, players are put in countless situations, and also need to defend from the other team scoring runs to win - this leads to different roles that adjust what the goals for those stats may be. Stats tell the story, rather than predict it. And ever since the MLB has flipped that by playing to the stats, it has become more and more true.

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No, you’re just dancing around a simple fact to prove something you don’t understand.

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Good old Irony King describes himself thinking he’s insulting another.

Here is what you said :

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There isn’t any data to suggest lower averages = more runs. I don’t know how so many people have bought into that nonsense.

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Of course no one versed in analytics would argue lower BA leads to more runs in and of itself. Thats silly. You are the one ignoring a key fact, (On Base Percentage). I’m not “dancing around” anything. I’m flat out telling you what analytics says is simply that getting on base, regardless of how, is what’s most important.

lol another liar