COMMENTARY| A player’s WAR (Wins Above Replacement) has become his measuring stick. The stats you see on the back of a bubble gum card or in the newspaper under League Leaders tumble down a steep slope toward insignificance when assessing the value of a player. The Bill James-ian contingent of number crunchers has all but rendered the numbers we grew up understanding and utilizing to judge our players obsolete.
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January 9th, 2013 at 10:33 pm
[...] For Michael Young, a Shot at Redemption with the Philadelphia Phillies (Yahoo! Contributor Network) COMMENTARY| A player’s WAR (Wins Above Replacement) has become his measuring stick. The stats you see on the back of a bubble gum card or in the newspaper under League Leaders tumble down a steep slope toward insignificance when assessing the value of a player. The Bill James-ian contingent of number crunchers has all but [...]… [...]
January 11th, 2013 at 6:27 pm
[...] stellar career in the game that America loves, a player can find himself enshrined more… For Michael Young, a Shot at Redemption with the Philadelphia Phillies (Yahoo! Contributor Network) – phillieshomeplate.com 01/10/2013 COMMENTARY| A player’s WAR (Wins Above [...]