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Originally Posted by moon
Not sure where the not anywhere close to comment is from ...
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From this:
I don't love a stat that tries to tell me that he is having anywhere close to ... [the] season [of] Chris Carpenter.
which I quoted in the post. Perhaps I misunderstood, but I don't see how.
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Originally Posted by moon
strikeouts, groundouts and flyouts all count the same having them valued greatly doesn't make a ton of sense.
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Because ground and fly outs require other players. Home runs surrendered and strikeouts thrown are independent of team defense and other factors beyond the players control.
-I went looking for support for that argument, but can't be bothered to read through the formulas at fangraphs, so the K,HR thing might be bunk.
But Morrow has a fantastic WAR regardless.