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So here's the thing: by all accounts, people are terrible at understanding good fielding just by watching. Cf Omar Vizquel. Most gold gloves are awarded on some mixture of speed, previous gold g… (View Post)

Wow! I never thought those would be worth more than $18 when I was dealing them! (View Post)

Oh, I completely agree (about baseball, not knowing enough about the NFL), but Blyleven and Niekro are far, far from the biggest mistakes. It would be an awfully small hall if Blyleven and Niekro wer… (View Post)

One is a single game stat, the other is a single season stat. Many, many people you've never heard of have pitched no hitters. (View Post)

Look, nobody thinks there were forty players better than Orr. Nobody. But you can't use a rate stat, even one as useless as +/- per game, to compare them. Instead you have to take Orr plus thirt… (View Post)