Various Chicago media folks who may or may not be very smart have suggested that Reed has the edge over Perez for making the team, especially after Reed homered and Perez made a rookie mistake yesterday. What do you think? They both kind of suck equally on offense.
Put simply, it is the form of statistical analysis Chicago sports teams should be using. Instead, like the turn of the century days of Mordecai "Three Finger" Brown, the fans, the pundits, and at times even the organization appear to rely on statistical tools more than a century old: batting average, earned run average, and wins and losses. Sabermetrics is a combination of economics, statistics, and hardy logic -- best taken with a tankard of open-mindedness.
This blog, therefore, is an attempt to show that fans of Chicago Sports refuse to abide by primitive analysis a moment longer. It is a call to reasoning and in-depth statistical investigation, to optimized management of team resources, and to congenial debate about the means of achieving success.
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Various Chicago media folks who may or may not be very smart have suggested that Reed has the edge over Perez for making the team, especially after Reed homered and Perez made a rookie mistake yesterday. What do you think? They both kind of suck equally on offense.
ReplyDeleteFrankly, they don't equally suck. Reed can sort of hit lefties (sort of), but Perez is a demon on the base paths. I'll be sick if Reed makes the team.
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