All stats are "made up".

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Can we all agree that Lopez has pitched better than Quintana so far this season by a wide margin?

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No.

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He's pitched worse than 8 ERA Quintana?

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That's 7.78 ERA Quintana to you sir!

They have to pitch the games they're actually in. The numbers are only relevant within the context in which they were created.

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Come on! You're a baseball guy. I know you've probably forgotten more about the history of the game than I know. There is no way you've seen both of them pitch and thought Quintana was better. He's absolutely sucked in all but 1 game. This is when being rigid is wrong.

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Again, it's more complicated than you make it seem. You can't go out and shoot a 70 at Waveland and claim you played better than Tiger Woods did in his last round at the Masters.

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But only for pitchers? Position players' numbers are not relevant within the context in which they were created?

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Yes, I agree. Lopez has been excellent.

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Do you mean position players' numbers are only relevant within their context? If so, of course they are. That's why Chuck Klein and Dante Bichette aren't as great as they look without putting the numbers in context.

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And Javier Baez is a better player than Ryne Sandberg. Exactly.

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That's a good argument. Ima use this one.

I don't know how you get there, but I guess if you want to take such a position you can.

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Ryne Sandberg didn't outperform the other team's hitters. Javier Baez does.

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That's incorrect. He outperformed most other hitters who were in the same games as he was.

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IMU is struggling. Not his fault though. Everyone learns eventually that position players and starting pitchers don’t have the same impact on games.

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He's been arguably the most promising young player.

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100% agree. It's very early, but Sox fans should be watching him with excitement. His quotes in the paper also show he is down to earth focusing on what he can control. I wouldn't let the mess that is the current team impact my feelings about the organization's future. For some reason, the current collection of players on the major league roster just isn't working well together. It's like a bad snowball effect.

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According to what? Your arbitrary made up "stats" of choice? Show me where the wins were.

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Well, I am assuming he did, since he is in the Hall of Fame and the vast majority of those he played against are not. But I admit I don't know for an absolute fact whether he did. In any case, I think my assumption is a safe one.

Additionally, I will point out, once again, that all stats are arbitrary and "made up". Further, there is no "win" stat for second basemen. That's quite likely because there is very little correlation between the performance of the respective second basemen and their teams' success in a particular game.

There's a reason a baseball line looks like this:

Minnesota Twins (Jake Odorizzi- R) +1½ (-110)
New York Yankees (Masahiro Tanaka- R) -1½ (-110)

And not like this:

Minnesota Twins (Brian Dozier- R) +1½ (-110)
New York Yankees (Gleyber Torres- R) -1½ (-110)

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And the reason is archaic traditionalism.

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More likely because the starting pitchers have an exponentially greater effect on the game than the second basemen.

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