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08-11-2022, 03:37 PM #1176
It's so weird to me that in your argument of who was the best hitter of baseballs and getting on base from that, you actually ignore the concept of, ya know, getting on base? And ignore that the best hitter of baseballs might be the guy who gets on base more. You use "at bats" as a stat, willfully ignoring that walks don't count as at bats. Like, walks are completely irrelevant to you.
In any baseball situation -- down runs or tied, men on or bases empty -- isn't the best hitter the guy you'd most want at bat? To start a rally or drive guys in? In no world is that Gwynn. I mean, sure, if you narrowly define best hitter as the guy who is most likely to get a "hit", and treat walks the same as outs, and give extra credit for avoiding strikeouts (because that means you didn't hit the ball), then sure, I'll give you Gwynn. But that's an utterly bizarre way to define best hitter, divorced from the actual reality of the game."fuck off you asshat gaper shit for brains fucktard wanker." - Jesus Christ
"She was tossing her bean salad with the vigor of a Drunken Pop princess so I walked out of the corner and said.... "need a hand?"" - Odin
"everybody's got their hooks into you, fuck em....forge on motherfuckers, drag all those bitches across the goal line with you." - (not so) ill-advised strategy
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08-11-2022, 03:43 PM #1177
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08-11-2022, 03:47 PM #1178
Because art matters. Because the beauty of a skill transcends what you do with it, and lifts us up as a human race. Ray Allen's jump shot matters. Barry Sanders' cutbacks matter. Franz Klammer at Innsbruck matters. Reaching the absolute limit and edge of what humans can do matters. When it came to the art of putting a ball in play with a bat, which is the fundamental building block of baseball, Tony Gwynn was the best there ever was, and that matters. Babe Ruth was perhaps the greatest baseball player in terms of impact (SUF's argument above - and its a good position for sure.) But when we are kids in backyards no one cares about walks or stolen bases or infield shifts. Hitting a ball with a stick is primal, foundational, elegant and art. And I care deeply about who was the best to ever do that. And that was Gwynn.
From sabr.org:
I met baseball’s best hitter! No, not Babe Ruth, who died in 1948. He is baseball’s best batter. No, not Ty Cobb, who died on my fourth birthday, in 1961. He is baseball’s best “unadjusted” hitter. Not Honus Wagner (who actually had a .328 lifetime batting average). Not Ted Williams. Not even Wee Willie Keeler! To a sabermetrician like me, adjustments are important — nay, critical — to evaluating player performance. The moniker “baseball’s best hitter” properly belongs to Tony Gwynn.
First, I should explain that the term “best hitter” is a vague one. I define it to be “best at getting hits.” The classic metric for this is batting average. Some baseball pundits prefer to say that batting average measures ability as a “pure hitter” rather than as a “hitter.” OK, fine. Call Gwynn “baseball’s best pure hitter.” Why should we even care about this title, though? Aren’t sabermetricians all about wins, wins, wins, which essentially comes from runs, runs, runs — so concepts like WAR (wins above replacement), OPS (on-base-plus-slugging), or linear weights become the metrics of choice? Well, this sabermetrician cares about more than wins. There is an art to hitting — baseball swings can be beautiful. Just watch a regular-season game. A single typically gets much more applause than a walk. In Internet terms, it gets more “likes.” Winning shouldn’t be everything, otherwise a late-season game between two non-contenders should just be canceled.
Oh, I define “best batter” (or perhaps “best all-around batter”) as the player with the best ability to produce runs (thus wins) in a given plate appearance, while “best player” is the best all-around player, which includes baserunning, fielding, and pitching abilities. Yes, Babe Ruth wins both of these awards.
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08-11-2022, 03:52 PM #1179
600 At bats is basically a season. Bonds had 2500 walks compared to Gwynn's 790, if you give him the difference of at bats he might have had 100 more home runs. I agree that there is value in not striking out, absolutely, and forcing the opposing team to make the play and power isn't everything but his ISO was 20% less than league average. You can't be "the best" when you don't have the power to leave the yard imo.
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08-11-2022, 03:53 PM #1180
I mean, Barry Bonds had 2,374 more plate appearances than Gwynn (PA is a much better measure than "at bats"). Bonds got on base (hits plus walks) 5,493 times. Gwynn got on base 3,931 times. So, in those extra 2,374 plate appearances, Bonds got on base 1,562 more times than Gwynn; Bonds made only 812 more outs than Gwynn even though he had 2,374 more plate appearances. And a groundout is the same as a strikeout (the stats guys argue about the finer points of this but simply put they're the same). And you're telling me Gwynn is the greatest hitter ever? Isn't the greatest hitter the guy who is less likely to make an out? Note I have not talked about slugging at all, just not making an out.
The article you linked defines it as “best at getting hits.” Which is an absurd way to look at hitting, it says a guy like Jose Altuve is a better career "hitter" than Joey Votto because he has a career BA that is 8 points higher, even though Votto has led the league in OBP 7 times and has a career OBP that is 53 points higher than Altuve. But ok, in a world where Altuve is a better hitter than Votto (again, not even mentioning slugging), then sure, Gwynn is the best hitter ever."fuck off you asshat gaper shit for brains fucktard wanker." - Jesus Christ
"She was tossing her bean salad with the vigor of a Drunken Pop princess so I walked out of the corner and said.... "need a hand?"" - Odin
"everybody's got their hooks into you, fuck em....forge on motherfuckers, drag all those bitches across the goal line with you." - (not so) ill-advised strategy
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08-11-2022, 03:57 PM #1181
When a guy walks up to the plate, nobody says "the outcome of this event doesn't matter unless he makes an out or gets a hit, anything else is irrelevant". When a guy walks up to the plate, the fundamental question is going to be when his time at the plate is done, did he make an out or not.
"fuck off you asshat gaper shit for brains fucktard wanker." - Jesus Christ
"She was tossing her bean salad with the vigor of a Drunken Pop princess so I walked out of the corner and said.... "need a hand?"" - Odin
"everybody's got their hooks into you, fuck em....forge on motherfuckers, drag all those bitches across the goal line with you." - (not so) ill-advised strategy
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08-11-2022, 03:58 PM #1182
Barry Bonds is the greatest hitter I ever saw. Fight me.
"fuck off you asshat gaper shit for brains fucktard wanker." - Jesus Christ
"She was tossing her bean salad with the vigor of a Drunken Pop princess so I walked out of the corner and said.... "need a hand?"" - Odin
"everybody's got their hooks into you, fuck em....forge on motherfuckers, drag all those bitches across the goal line with you." - (not so) ill-advised strategy
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08-11-2022, 04:01 PM #1183
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08-11-2022, 04:03 PM #1184
I am surprised that was written in 2019. Is that accurate? If 'best hitter' is best at getting hits, can you convince me we should discount Ichiro and the years he spent in Japan? Gwynn had 3100 hits but Ichiro may have racked up over 4k. He had 3089 despite not starting until he was 27.
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08-11-2022, 04:06 PM #1185
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08-11-2022, 04:18 PM #1186
Barry had only 102 less INTENTIONAL walks than Gwynn had walks his entire career (688 to 790). Barry had a season with more intentional walks than Gwynn ever had regular walks in a single season (120 to 82). And Barry's 2nd and 3rd best years for intentional walks (68 and 61) were greater than Gwynn's 2nd best year of regular walks (59).
And since Greg Maddux was brought up, admittedly Gwynn hit him like crazy, better than Bonds actually. And Maddux called Bonds "the easiest guy in the world to pitch to." However, he said that because "if it mattered you just walked him. He was so much better than all the other hitters in the game. You got to pick your fights. You got to get 27 outs and you got to know where they are. They’re not going to be with him. So you got pick on the other eight guys if you can fight them that way.”Last edited by Danno; 08-11-2022 at 05:05 PM.
"fuck off you asshat gaper shit for brains fucktard wanker." - Jesus Christ
"She was tossing her bean salad with the vigor of a Drunken Pop princess so I walked out of the corner and said.... "need a hand?"" - Odin
"everybody's got their hooks into you, fuck em....forge on motherfuckers, drag all those bitches across the goal line with you." - (not so) ill-advised strategy
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08-11-2022, 04:19 PM #1187
You know where I live
This is an interesting point for sure
Untrue. A groundout can advance or score a runner. So can a flyout. A strikeout cannot. It's the most selfish play in baseball.
This, right here, is the only counter argument I'm accepting. FKNA.
This stuff is fun, right?
EDIT: Not gonna lie, I find it both surprising and amusing that this has Danno so riled up. Danno you make good points, I just disagree. And now we wait a bit for Danno to do more research...
Lawyers.
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08-11-2022, 04:27 PM #1188
This is why I said the stats guys argue this. Because a groundout can also be a double play. And a groundout can come on a first pitch, whereas a K requires 3 minimum, and usually more, and is often seen as better in terms of getting higher pitch counts, which benefits the team. Lots of stats guys argue the finer points of this, but there is little evidence to suggest that a strikeout is “worse” than a groundout, popout, or any other means of making an out, with respect to generating runs.
"fuck off you asshat gaper shit for brains fucktard wanker." - Jesus Christ
"She was tossing her bean salad with the vigor of a Drunken Pop princess so I walked out of the corner and said.... "need a hand?"" - Odin
"everybody's got their hooks into you, fuck em....forge on motherfuckers, drag all those bitches across the goal line with you." - (not so) ill-advised strategy
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08-11-2022, 04:31 PM #1189
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08-11-2022, 04:42 PM #1190
Stats guys are annoying, but useful.
It just seems really weird that you take the position that the strikeout is the "most selfish play in baseball" yet you also take the position that a groundout is not more selfish than a walk, that essentially it's better for a hitter -- to be a "hitter" -- to ground out than get a walk. Which is utterly bizarre. Because there's no world where a hitter should choose over and over again to groundout versus take a walk, simply because by grounding out they were making contact."fuck off you asshat gaper shit for brains fucktard wanker." - Jesus Christ
"She was tossing her bean salad with the vigor of a Drunken Pop princess so I walked out of the corner and said.... "need a hand?"" - Odin
"everybody's got their hooks into you, fuck em....forge on motherfuckers, drag all those bitches across the goal line with you." - (not so) ill-advised strategy
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08-11-2022, 04:56 PM #1191Registered User
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Peak Bonds (2001-2004) was so far and away better than any hitter in history, that I don’t really know how someone could even argue against it.
And while those Gwynn stats listed up thread are amazing, they don’t touch all of the crazy Bonds stats. One of my favorites is that he had 5 seasons with an OBP over .400 with an 0-2 count.
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08-11-2022, 04:57 PM #1192
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08-11-2022, 05:00 PM #1193
International Kickboxing Federation?
"fuck off you asshat gaper shit for brains fucktard wanker." - Jesus Christ
"She was tossing her bean salad with the vigor of a Drunken Pop princess so I walked out of the corner and said.... "need a hand?"" - Odin
"everybody's got their hooks into you, fuck em....forge on motherfuckers, drag all those bitches across the goal line with you." - (not so) ill-advised strategy
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08-11-2022, 05:05 PM #1194
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08-11-2022, 05:15 PM #1195
I'm assuming that your post has something to do with the Yankees. And there's your answer.
"fuck off you asshat gaper shit for brains fucktard wanker." - Jesus Christ
"She was tossing her bean salad with the vigor of a Drunken Pop princess so I walked out of the corner and said.... "need a hand?"" - Odin
"everybody's got their hooks into you, fuck em....forge on motherfuckers, drag all those bitches across the goal line with you." - (not so) ill-advised strategy
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08-11-2022, 07:02 PM #1196
I interrupt the argument with a TheRookieKwan update. 1-3 with 2 walks in a Guards 4-3 win. Guards 7 games over 500 and rolling, and Kwan back over .300.
That is all.
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08-11-2022, 07:10 PM #1197
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08-11-2022, 08:06 PM #1198
Holy shit.
That moon, those clouds, over that field.
Someone in production nailed it.I still call it The Jake.
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08-12-2022, 05:16 AM #1199
Iowa's beauty is greatly underrated.
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08-12-2022, 05:47 AM #1200man of ice
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Kind of fun story that I just found out about 5 minutes ago - Manny's, Pedro's and Papi's kids are all on the same Sox developmental team together and their Dads are often seen around the clubhouse. They honestly seem like nice kids. http://www.espn.com/video/clip?id=34313749
And the Sox finally win a series against the AL East! Okay it was a one-game series against the O's. But still!
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