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Originally Posted by volfanbill  the important thing is they got a player that won't have to spend 5 years improving in the minors. The A's really don't care too much about pop. If they can get three or four guys capable of 25 hrs a year, it's a huge plus, but that's about the best to expect. That's just Billy Ball. Before I get racked for that, that could also mean Bill James. |
Not sure what you mean by this; James has always liked the sluggers. I'm pretty sure that the first time I ever read anything about the concept of an "empty average" was in James's original Baseball Abstracts. SLG has always been at least as important in James's formulae as OBP.