Posted by bad_luck on 3/2/2015 1:37:00 PM (view original):
Posted by dahsdebater on 3/2/2015 1:24:00 PM (view original):
This is the stupidest line of questioning...
Just because you think OBP and SLG are more important than Ks doesn't mean you don't think Ks matter. I'd take OBP + SLG over steals, too, but that doesn't mean steals "don't really matter."
Tec's argued for 20 pages that strikeouts are worse than other outs. If he's right, he should probably take the low k's over OBP.
Why? Again, compare it to steals. Steals at a decent success rate are definitely better than no steals. But I still don't take them over OBP. That doesn't mean they don't matter.
You know I agree with you. The average marginal cost of a strikeout is very, very small. Not quite 0, but extremely close. But this utter dumbassery isn't going to prove it to anybody.