The Most Important Baseball Stat?

[Gary Armida]

Quote: Originally Posted by dkgojackets

LOL. Nah, man nothing to see here. I just won't comment on any of the articles on the site anymore.

[dkgojackets]

fwiw, jokes can be hard to relay over the internets.

[Gary Armida]

Absolutely dk. It's all good. It's really no big deal.

[Skerik]

Quote:

Well I'd say I've come to the conclusion that going simply by batting AVG and HRs is a bad idea, and going off OBP when piecing together a team is a much better option.

Man, if only guys like Billy Beane had been around to tell us this stuff 5 years ago.

Up next in OS's continuing baseball strategy series: "Which is better, the home run or the single?"

[dkgojackets]

Quote: Originally Posted by Tim McCarver

One would think that a lead-off walk would lead to more runs than a lead-off home-run, but it’s not true. We’ve researched it and this year a lead-off home-run has led to more multi-run innings than have lead-off walks.

OS needs to recruit this guy.

[ChaseB]

Quote: Originally Posted by dkgojackets

OS needs to recruit this guy.

Because Tim McCarver is such an important piece of FOX baseball broadcasts?

[catcatch22]

When I meant informative I meant the NASCAR article.

[SportsTop]

Quote: Originally Posted by Sully

As for the article, I'm not really sure what the point of it is. Pretty much everything stated is common baseball knowledge. The casual fan will learn more from the posts in this thread than from the original piece.

Maybe the point of the article...to generate discussion. It's worked in my opinion.

Quote: Originally Posted by favre4vr

Hey man--I READ the article. If you READ my post, you would see that. I understand the "point" of the article was to discuss which stat was best. However, as I said in my post there is not just ONE stat. Any person who knows baseball at all, knows that. Heck even Bill James says that. I closed my post with a quick little ONE line freakin statement saying that wins are the bottom line. Like Jackets said, there are many paths to get there. Read my entire post, you know about bullpens and Adam Dunn before you comment on the last freakin sentence and make it look like I don't know what I am talking about...Thanks for representing OS.

Defensive much? I never stated you didn't read the article. That statement was more of a generalization. I quoted your post to respond to your opinion on Sully's statement (which he ended up saying was a joke).

The article never stated there was just one statistic to best evaluate players. Rather, it's goal was to argue whether or not one statistic was best. You can agree or disagree.

I was, however, happy to see you took the mature route and called out me representing OS based off a simple difference of opinion.

I expected a little more from a former mod.