Posted by Jtpsops on 11/10/2017 11:48:00 AM (view original):
Posted by dahsdebater on 11/10/2017 11:35:00 AM (view original):
Haven't you been around these forums? "Individual awards" in baseball are team awards.
Troll alert.
You're well aware that the debate you speak of is over ONE award, and the use of the word "value". Everyone knows Silver Sluggers are to be based purely on offensive stats.
Which makes Goldschmidt's win very puzzling.
It's not about one award.
If you look at RBI and runs very much for SS, they become team awards. Goldschmidt played on a better offensive team in a better hitters' park, so he had more RBI and runs even though he was a distinctly inferior hitter. That makes it, on some level, at least partially a team award.
Same thing happens when you look at wins and losses for Cy Young voting.