Derek
Table Setter
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I can assure you that no team in the league is valuing a walk the same as a single. I didn’t just make up my tier, it’s statistical analysis, and every team employs people who know exactly what I do plus so much more.I can’t remember who it was, but he was on The Fan talking about how walks are the same as singles now. I know there are influential people in higher places than me who believe that. I don’t like it. I’ve learned to accept the new game with less emphasis on putting the ball in play and more on getting on base as much as possible any way possible and hitting for power. But I’m not fully there as a fan.
And I absolutely agree with you and your tier. There are too many stats in baseball now that are all just noise to me, but OPS is the one that I will always refer to when judging players. Gives you the entire snapshot of what they do well. In a day with declining hitting skills batting average has been tossed aside as the best judge, which took me some time to get used to. I always loved memorizing batting averages off the back of baseball cards. That was baseball to me, and defining who was good at hitting to me.
Heck, the “walk is just as good as a single” saying isn’t even a new saying. I remember hearing it when I was playing for Rootstown Hot Stove in my first year of kid pitch back in 1995.