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I really enjoy nick’s chats. With Anthony, Steve and Mark we get the same takes and they don’t see their blind spots. I’ve seen both Steve and Mark talk about things in their chats they feel are playing it safe and then be wrong time and time again. The new torpedo bats being a recent examples. Both Mark and Steve said they’re being overblown and not a big deal but then the rest of mlb jumped on the bandwagon because any small advantage adds up over 162 and this is a copycat league (something Nick mentioned in his last chat). That’s an intelligent take instead of referring to some overreactions on twitter. I get why the writers would address the extremes but it’s playing down to the lowest common denominator at the expense of being factually accurate.
As Anthony (factually) pointed out today, 4.47 runs per team game is the average this year, compared to 4.55 through April 6 last season. League slash line was .241/.319/.388 at this point a year ago; it’s .239/.317/.394 this year.
When you say reporting on overreactions from Twitter, are you referring to the people who are acting like the torpedo bats are the greatest thing for hitting since pine tar despite no factual evidence to support their claim?
Also, each writer is correct. No, there isn’t much of a statistical difference right now, and yes it is a copycat league where, despite the lack of evidence in an extremely small sample size, that teams are going to copycat for FOMO on the newest trend to hit the sport.
It’s cool if you like them, but attacking the journalistic integrity of people who don’t agree with your opinion that’s not supported by statistics is just plain ignorant.
And his take on torpedo bats this chat was “find someone in your league who thinks they matter and rip them off”.