Recent content by muscle979

I'm not against sabermetrics but what irritated me was people using the numbers to say that Freddie Freeman was a 'pedestrian' first baseman. People who likely rarely see him play.

More that he wouldn't be as good as last season. Nonsense about his BABIP being so high. His BABIP isn't high because he hits the ball and gets lucky, it's high because he can hit for power to all fields. Of course you actually have to watch him play to know that. As I said, I was getting...

They are atrocious against good teams. Even ESPN who loves them isn't able to ignore that. If their schedule's soft enough they might have a shot at a wildcard.

At the beginning of last season I stated on another board [not a Braves board] that he was better than Bryce Harper and got basically laughed at. At the end of the season I was hearing from the same people how 'his BABIP was way too high, his production isn't sustainable.' [A Marlins fan in...