It appears to me that sportswriters have a value in baseball society. They are given seats and viewpoints to eyewitness each & every game. These sportswriters are not given pamphlets urging them to create formulaic mathematical conditions to vainly prove that RHenderson is Major League Baseball's first 6-tool, or 7-tool player. They might be greeted by a stadium usher, who may only acknowledge reading yesterdays' story about RHenderson's on-field antics. All sportswriters engage simple mathematics in their deadlined accounts of those games. DMattingly clearly proved his worth to them in 1985. Simply, his batting avg. in the American League was considered with the same simple math contained in the batting avg. of his MVP cohort in the National League, WMcGee. None of your numbers are considerable today, to de-value the worth of a simple batting avg., as it is not neccessary. What is neccessary with hitters in both leagues, to impress & influence sportswriters, is really nothing new. Your same numbers could have also been produced with calculators back in the 1980's. But sportswriters, like most of society, have considerations that make time more valuable than wasted numbers that have no bearing on decisions that relate to history. They are paid for their time, & tasks. Formulaic blunderings do not fix broken steering wheels. Sportswriters steer their own way, with wheels that work.