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Originally Posted by The God Hypothesis
This is what happens when a Team ignores the tend in baseball towards valuing ops and obp. Gmdm either refuses or isn't smart enough to make the change to modern baseball analytics thereby overvaluing his sense of a players "skills" through the eye test, stats of yesteryear, or grit.
This has been pointed out by Rany for years now. I'd rather have the dermatologist extraordinaire running this team through science and numbers than GMDM and his crew of outdated clowns.
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Adding to that, I think if these guys had come up through a system that stressed strike zone management, they'd be much better hitters.