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Originally Posted by OhioLawyerF5
Oh, you're one of those people who thinks pretend stats are real stats. Nevermind, carry on.
What some people interpret as luck, others might call knowing how to get hitters out.
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Honest question, if you take a pitcher like Martin Perez who didn't really know how to get hitters out for 10 years, then had a great year, then sucked for 5 years again, do you think its more likely he got lucky for that 1 year or that he really knew how to get hitters out for that 1 year but didn't really know how to for the other 14 years of his career.
This isn't a knock on Andrew Abbot, I think he's very good and one of few pitchers that doesn't throw 100 I've bought cards of butting things like BABIP and BARISP are very real stats that bring with it a very real amount of variance and why things like xERA are likely far more reliable stats then ERA etc. That being said Abbot is also top 15 in xERA so he's the real deal