Sabermetrics make baseball even more interesting

By Rob Neyer

Tuesday, December 16, 2008

Non-sabermetricians tend to think of the sabermetric community as a monolith. Which certainly makes it easier to throw out generalizations about moms' basements and never watching real games or talking to real players. But sabermetrics is a science of sorts, and just like every other science, if you bother to check you'll find all sorts of disagreements (most of them friendly, I'm glad to report). Today's example … Here's J.C. "Sabernomics" Bradbury on the Phillies' new left fielder: The ...

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