2011 Philadelphia Phillies Season Thread (choking awful pos team, DIAF)

[Sgt PSN]

Batting average doesn't matter now?  Thats good to know.

[PoopyfaceMcGee]

It's all about ball bearings these days.

[MDS]

its a totally arbitrary stat....it can vaguely ballpark someones production, but its not really something you need to look at

obp, slg, ops would be the keys. and dependent on the player production with risp.

[SD]

Batting average doesn't matter now?  Thats good to know.

If you talk to the real stat nerds aka seamheads they'll tell you how little relevance batting avg. has. They'll quote you stats like ops and vorp then explain to you why they are a more valuable tool to go by then BA. Personally I always look at BA/HR/RBI/SB/2B then strike outs when evaluating a player.

[Munson]

But slugging percentage can be skewed by the scorekeepers too...A guy might reach 2nd on what could be an error, but is scored a double, or vice versa....which then skews OPS....which then makes it useless!

[MDS]

Batting average doesn't matter now?  Thats good to know.

If you talk to the real stat nerds aka seamheads they'll tell you how little relevance batting avg. has. They'll quote you stats like ops and vorp then explain to you why they are a more valuable tool to go by then BA. Personally I always look at BA/HR/RBI/SB/2B then strike outs when evaluating a player.

you are wayyyyyyyyyy too old school

i could give 2 shteins about vorp or babip but the back of the baseball card stats are pretty much outdated. you cant just look at them.

[Don Ho]

Trading Joey Votto? 

Missed Charlie pulling Hamels.  Hamels looked pissed in the dugout.

[Don Ho]

Sit down you fag.

[Geowhizzer]

VIC!

[Don Ho]

Pineapple Head!

[Munson]

MVP, MVP, MVP

[Geowhizzer]

Damn, that foul by Lewis was close to the line.

Nice comeback by Stutes to get him looking.

[ice grillin you]

obp, slg, ops would be the keys

and how many of those stats are positively affected by a good BA

[MDS]

polanco's carcass is playing well tonight

[ice grillin you]

did boone just say that was stutes fault?....lol