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OPS: Begone! Part 2
May 29, 2003 - kenshin
"Give them the right tools for the right job, and let them decide if they want it. If Felipe Alou says that looking at OPS is b.s. to decide whether to walk Bonds, I'm going to agree with him. Should I say that OPS is less b.s. than using BA? A rose by any other name..."
I am not certain what you intended to mean with this statement. I fully agree that OPS does not constitute an ideal metric; however, if it is superior to those tools currently used why not employ it in game situations? Additionally, Alou's lifetime of baseball experience does not validate his point. If I owned a team would I rather have Alou manage it than I? Yes. Yet, his superior ability does not add unwarranted credence to outdated and possibly erronous methods
OPS: Begone! Part 2
May 30, 2003 - kenshin
Perhaps I misunderstanding the arguement about the relevance of BA in run scored. However, doesn't a single generate marginally more runs than a walk (it allows runners to advance from 2nd to home)? Thus an individual with a higher batting average and identical OBP and SLG to another player should produce more runs than the lower batting average player.
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