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Originally Posted by moon
I know that it is baseball and any stat geek can manipulate the numbers to make Varitek look like a combo of Ted Williams and Babe Ruth, but I find it particularly difficult to believe a site that has this line:
This is where I think some stats geeks get caught up in their made up numbers and totally ignore what you see by actually watching the games.
There is no way that Rios has been close to fantastic, let alone nothing short of fantastic. And for long stretches he is barely above average.
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Any person who watches Jays games can get caught up in only remembering terrible no swing SOs while forgetting the good hits and plus defense.
A game like baseball has to be stat dependent, as the season is 162 games. There is no way you judge a player based on memory, unless you are the Rainman and you have to catch the Jays at 5 instead of the Wheel.