March 18, 2004
In Touch with the Players
Athletics nation has set up a Q&A with A's rookie Bobby Crosby. You can leave questions for Bobby here (deadline, noon PST). Crosby is having a very good spring. However, looking at the A's stats, I was reminded of a pet peeve; no walks are listed for batters. Walks are not in the AP boxscores, so they are not in the stats. They have HBP and SF, so you'd think they could find a way to list one of the more important numbers. And of course, since they don't have walks, they don't have OBA. This omission needs to be corrected.
Posted by David Pinto at
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If you go to the CBS sportsline site and visit the team pages, you can find the BB numbers under the extended hitting stats. FWIW, Crosby has walked 5 times for a .432 OBA. Athletics page is linked above.
Not that spring training stats have relevance ;).
you know, in this era of baseball and statistics I can't really understand why they don't keep complete stats. I know there are a lot of players on the rosters and such, but you would think it would wet the fans appetites to have complete box scores inthe spring. And with computers and everything it can't be all that hard to do.