Jose Reyes and Jimmy Rollins are the overvalued SS this year. No, cut that. EVERY YEAR!!!
Look at the 162 game career averages for these two and my boy Hanley:
OBP/SLG/XBH/RCperG
Jose Reyes: .33o/.426/58/5.3
Jimmy Rollins: .331/.441/68/5.4
Hanley Ramirez: .386/.562/81/7.2
Now tell me how the heck Rollins deserves the 2007 MVP when he basically was a whole lot worse last year than Hanley Ramirez, let alone Matt Holliday. Yeah, I'm still frickin pissed!!!
Now, why does this matter? For one, it is much more likely for a player to be able to steal a base or score a run if they are ACTUALLY getting on base. It is also more likely for a player to accumulate more RBI if they are hitting more than just singles. I can't tell you what their batting averages are going to end up, but that is why sabermetrics is so important and why BA is such a horrible stat to base projections on.
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