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Not to be confused with 2001 Nobel Peace Prize winner Kofi Annan. 54th Clause of the Magna Carta absolutist. Commentary from an NRx perspective.

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    1. Bo Winegard‏ @EPoe187 8 Feb 2020

      WAR, the baseball statistic, is one of the great discoveries of the past 30 years. And Mike Trout is its greatest beneficiary.

      8 replies 4 retweets 37 likes
    2. Steve Sailer‏ @Steve_Sailer 8 Feb 2020
      Replying to @EPoe187

      Sabermetricians congratulate themselves for noticing in retrospect what fans in the stands noticed at the time. E.g., Advanced Analytics has determined that the greatest baseball player of all time was ... Babe Ruth! Who was also the most popular player ever.

      8 replies 6 retweets 40 likes
    3. Steve Sailer‏ @Steve_Sailer 8 Feb 2020
      Replying to @Steve_Sailer @EPoe187

      Similarly, WAR proves in hindsight that Mike Trout's predecessor Mickey Mantle was a great, great baseball player, a statistical insight known in 1957 only to every single nine-year-old boy in America.

      2 replies 5 retweets 24 likes
    4. Savanarola‏ @Skubalon2 8 Feb 2020
      Replying to @Steve_Sailer @EPoe187

      So I think what you're saying is SABRmetrics is better at evaluating ordinary rather than extraordinary players.

      1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
    5. Steve Sailer‏ @Steve_Sailer 8 Feb 2020
      Replying to @Skubalon2 @EPoe187

      What I'm saying is that the all-around baseball contributions tabulated formally by Wins Above Replacement were usually successfully tabulated informally by fans for generations before SABRmetrics came along. As Yogi Berra said, "You can observe a lot just by watching."

      4 replies 0 retweets 9 likes
    6. Savanarola‏ @Skubalon2 8 Feb 2020
      Replying to @Steve_Sailer @EPoe187

      A lot of stat induced blindness. Why did it take teams so long to figure out that getting on base via walks was not luck? But walks for decades were unappreciated because batting average did not consider them.

      1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
    7. Steve Sailer‏ @Steve_Sailer 8 Feb 2020
      Replying to @Skubalon2 @EPoe187

      Who was the most famous and popular baseball player of all time? Babe Ruth. And who set the record that Barry Bonds eventually broke with 170 bases on balls in 1923? Babe Ruth. SABRmetricians have rewritten a lot of baseball history to make themselves look more valuable.

      4 replies 0 retweets 8 likes
    8. Isidore The Farmer‏ @FarmerIsidore 8 Feb 2020
      Replying to @Steve_Sailer @Skubalon2 @EPoe187

      I was taught at 8 that, especially when leading off, a walk is as good as a base hit. And, even with runners on base, only swing at strikes. Make the zone slightly larger with 2 strikes. Be patient, make the pitcher throw strikes.

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    9. Savanarola‏ @Skubalon2 8 Feb 2020
      Replying to @FarmerIsidore @Steve_Sailer @EPoe187

      But the majors with the preoccupation with batting average devalued the base on balls, even though some players could draw walks consistently at much higher rates than others. BA qua stat implicitly assumed that the walk was epiphenomemal to batter's ability.

      1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes
    10. Steve Sailer‏ @Steve_Sailer 8 Feb 2020
      Replying to @Skubalon2 @FarmerIsidore @EPoe187

      And yet, Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, Ted Williams, and Mickey Mantle got huge numbers of walks and were superstars to average fans despite SABRmetric not existing yet. A lot of SABRmetrics is arguing with irrelevant old baseball intellectuals who preferred smart Cobb to vulgar Ruth.

      3 replies 0 retweets 3 likes
      Covfefe Anon‏ @CovfefeAnon 10 Feb 2020
      Replying to @Steve_Sailer @Skubalon2 and

      You picked 3 examples of players who all batted for high average - the test cases are guys who slugged for a lot, walked frequently but didn't hit for high average - and those guys were indeed underrated. The converse applies as well to overrated players.

      5:07 AM - 10 Feb 2020
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