Quote:
Originally Posted by Parallex
lol. Yeah, you don't want your team making errors... I get what he's saying thou.
I mean a SS doesn't get to a grounder in time because he lacks range or because he shaded to far to the 3B line and the batter pulls up for a single doesn't get tagged with an error but a SS who huffs it or positions himself correctly, leaps to trap the ball on the infield but bobbles it when he pops up to make the throw will (frequently) get tagged with one.
Errors are a stupid stat.
|
But that's the problem. Leaping plays or ones that are outside the normal routine type plays are never scored errors. They are called infield singles.
It's a dumb argument. Errors are not a useless stat, but they certainly don't show the ability of a player's range and arm etc. There are other numbers for that.