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Originally Posted by tjforce
This right here is the issue that some folks don't understand.
In the 3rd grade when you got to pick a person to do a book report on, and you had to chose between Babe Ruth, Hellen Keller, or Abe Lincoln, did you chose Babe Ruth because of where his WAR7 ranked all time?
People acting like these advanced measures (which there are a near infinite amount of) are the end all, be all, just don't get that there are other things that go into creating a great legacy. What's the advanced measure on Jeter flipping the ball to the catcher against the A's? How much regular season WAR is equal to Pujols hitting 3 Home Runs in one World Series Game? Or how about Manny Ramirez blasting out 29 post season career Home Runs? Heck, there are more memorable plays from a guy who finished his career with 598 hits and 841 strike outs than there are of Trout, and that's because Bo Jackson was one of the most ridiculous athletes to ever play sports.
Trout will have a legacy. It'll get him into Cooperstown, and I even hope he's able to come back and have a good enough run to make it an even stronger resume than it is. But to just constantly go back to the advanced metrics as a reason why you can avoid all the holes in the resume is just missing the obvious point.
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This is it. Exactly. Trout has no signature moments. He has no signature season or stat line. He holds no prominent records. He is not charismatic, at all.
He was really good at drawing BB, but far from the best. And really good at accumulating WAR. What happens in 25 years when no one cares about WAR anymore? think of all the stats that no longer matter.