Somewhat interesting read from Baumann on Grantland, mentioning our own Joey Votto and everyone's favorite stat, the RBI.
http://grantland.com/the-triangle/jo...-heyward-hate/
Takes the arguments around traditional vs. modern stats and discusses fans reactions to their best players.The trouble with using Potter Stewart’s standard for identifying pornography — I know it when I see it — as a means of identifying “run producers” is that not everything in the world is pornography, or even like pornography. And while that may be a source of disappointment, it’s also an opportunity to quantify such things and to aggregate knowledge.