March 01, 2009
Who Needs OBP?
Brandon Phillips isn't getting a lot of love from the Reds Blogoshpere right now. Both Redleg Nation and Red Reporter pick up on this story:
"I don't believe that on-base percentage stuff. That's overrated to me. If you get hits, you'll be on base. That's what it's about."
As I said in the story, that will set the Sabermatics people off. I'm not surprised Phillips said it. My guess is half the players in the baseball wouldn't know what OPS. Batting average, homers and RBI are the numbers they look at it.
The good ones know what it is.
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"My guess is half the players in the baseball wouldn't know what OPS. Batting average, homers and RBI are the numbers they look at it."
That sentence makes no sense.
It's not a sentence. It's two sentences.
(The first one is missing an occurrence of the word "is". Can you figure out where that word should go?)
Zing, James! You got him good. Give yourself a pat on the back, tough guy.
This is the same as when they rag on players not knowing who played short for the 1933 Pirates. "they don't know the history of the game!"
They don't. They were playing baseball in their teens, not reading the back of baseball cards or bill james.
That was reserved for us to do.
We should not lord our advantages over them.