MLB Announces All-Star Starters

Cosmo-My point is your use of the descriptive “poor”.
Luck may have something do with small data bases,but are you still saying that it has to do with lifetime averages,or even yearly averages?
Ty Cobb still says “no”.Rogers Hornsby just said the same thing.
Any knowledgeable baseball observer says “no” also.
As far as predictability,I was right basically every time in predicting that Wade Boggs and Tony Gwynn would hit at least 300 the next year.
Real luck involves Kris Davis hitting exactly 247 four years in a row.
Methinks you should rethink your basic premise.
And one of its basic uses is to place players into the Hall of Fame.
I do not think that any of them were lucky to get there.

No cherry picking here.
These stats have to pass the smell test.BA has passed that since baseball began.
Just because someone hits 330 over the first half of the year certainly does not mean he will the second half,let alone the next year.
A player could be hurt the next year and affect his batting average.
Just because a rookie comes up hitting 350 and everyone raves about him does not mean that the pitchers will not soon catch up to him.
Even these things though have little to do with luck.
Posters like you are well meaning and knowledgeable about statistics but they are only a tool.The tried and true stats are still very valuable to use.They are just not now the only ones,and are not as universally accurate as thought before.
But in any sort of somewhat small to medium database,luck basically has nothing to do with it.Skill still wins out.

I sensed that you were not just another pretty face.
Many of the posters here say something,often stupid,and stick to it come hell or highwater.
Modern statistical use certainly has its place.The ones you use may be helpful in figuring out what Adam Frazier is worth as far as trade value.
But maybe he has turned the corner and his second half will be as good as the first and he will fulfill what David Freese said about him three years ago in winning the batting title.
Statistics are just another tool.Look at the shifts and how they have affected batting averages,That was due to increased use of statistics.
They have also caused some possible discrepancies for traditional statistics to come to light.A pitcher would have a much higher number of wins pitching for a good team rather than bad ones.But that is common sense anyway.
My point is that generally many of these traditional statistics would even out over time.But maybe not all.