Votto must floss.
Votto must floss.
"I tried to play golf, but I found out I wasn't very good." -Joey Votto on his offseason hobby search
An MLB.com reporter asked what one thing Votto couldn’t do. “I can’t skate or play hockey,” Votto said. “Well, I can skate ... but I can’t stop.”
Sure, there is OPS, RC, RC/27, WS, BABIP, LD%, ISO, VORP, WAR, PrOPS, RCAA, WPA and a host of other "advanced" metrics.
I can't figure out why anyone would want to pay attention to a generally solid measure of success that is easily tracked, visible to the naked eye and has been around for generations.
Hey, I'm agreeing with you here. I don't think it's at all neccessary to jump on a guy and write a page long rant on RBIs every time it's mentioned on here (which is the way it seems sometimes),
It is what it is. It's been around forever, and it's fun to keep track of because it actually tracks what has happened rather than the theoretical. For those reasons, it's always something I keep track of and pay attention to, it's just not something that should really come into the decision making process.
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