jerseyhoya wrote:Did MattS or anyone ever write an article about how Howard is more valuable because of his RISP 'clutchness' (thanks to the shift) or am I imagining things? In a dumb argument about how it is more valuable to hit a single when runners are in scoring position than when the bases are empty. Because fucking duh.
The question is repeatability, i.e. that players who have great RISP numbers one year generally fade back because it not a skill. It's not that RISP numbers are irrelevant because production with RISP is equivalent to production with the bases empty; they're irrelevant because they're usually small sample size flukes.
Or am I in the wrong?
i think i remember myself arguing that WPA should be included in some sort of context in WAR or something.
