Many old school baseball fans hate that sabermetrics has had a huge effect on baseball. One example is "Pitchers are less effective the 3rd time through the lineup." Would it be more palatable if it was framed as,"He's less effective after 100 pitches."

No, if you can't properly interpret the meaning then you shouldn't be in baseball management.

Vandiver: I agree anslytics is largely killing the game.

The stats that kill me are when they say something like "the batter hits 79% during night games when the game time temperature is under 68 degrees and the pitcher is left-handed."

(02-25-2021 12:04 AM)BePcr07 Wrote:  The stats that kill me are when they say something like "the batter hits 79% during night games when the game time temperature is under 68 degrees and the pitcher is left-handed."

Agreed. That is over the top.