But They’re Hanging With NERDS!
By Advanced analytics — they’re what you should use if you’re interested in winning. But if you want to think that Calgary and Toronto represent better strategies for franchise-building than Chicago, go right ahead.
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My least favorite argument: Commentators who simultaneously argue that stats are stupid and you’re a nerd while also using stats to claim they’re correct, e.g. “I don’t need any statistics to know a good hitter when I see one! He hit 50 home runs!”
Oh, yes. This is a specialty of Murray Chass: “why won’t you geeks get your nose out of your pocket protectors and forget the stats and watch the games and see that Felix Hernandez had fewer wins than some inferior pitchers and therefore shouldn’t win the Cy Young award. P.S. I am not a crackpot.”