This is the answer. And pitchers who miss bats in the playoffs are even more valuable. The more you can reduce variance/BABIP luck, the better off you are going to be. IMO in the regular season it’s for sure a bat. I’m taking Aaron Judge or Bobby Witt over any pitcher in the regular season without question.
I was thinking about Mike Trout being a generational hitter and not sniffing the post-season year after year
Not Roger, not Randy, not Nolan, not @J.R. (wink, wink), not Roy Pretty amazing for a guy with only one start. These type of stats always makes me wonder, who came close ??... (i.e. 7 consecutive, 8 of 9 batters, 9 of 10).
I mean to be fair the Angels somehow didn’t even sniff the playoffs with Ohtani being a top hitter and pitcher lmao
F the Mariners but Victor Robles was a real good sneaky signing for them after being DFA'd by the Nationals. He's been one of their most reliable bats.
That was an easy outcome to predict, he'd only sucked for 5+ years MLB top 10 prospect for 3 straight years or so.
30 years watching the sport. Only guy I watched and thought "hmm,maybe I could have played in the MLB" Every time he had a throw from SS I swore he didn't have enough on it with that pea shooter, but somehow he always did. Between that and 800 foul balls it was infuriating.
Yet he won 2 WS rings with 2 different teams and hit about .330 in the WS? I can't explain it either.
That is fun. And they were Byers at the deadline. This entire sport went full on mouth breather over the deadline.
