Except simple stats like hrs and rbis if focused on too heavily are a terrible way to measure a players impact. A big part of hitting is not only stiving in runs but helping the others on your team drive in runs. On base percentage , and the advanced stars run production stats make sense.
The problem though with ERA is you have one bad game and it shoots through the roof. A pitcher might have 20 good outings, pitching 6+ innings and giving away 3 runs or less. Then he starts a game, gives away 6 runs in an inning, gets pulled, and his ERA jumps up. Meanwhile he goes back to the 6+ great outings. Averages are great but they assume little deviation. When you have data and you see outliers you remove them from the calculation.
As we are for our phone services.
They need to establish themselves to the viewing public before they ever get to remain on air for any length of time.
WHIP and OPS are not new baseball stats. WAR is new, or as they like to term, advanced. As are things like BABIP, wOBA, ISO, xFIP, ERA+
I love it when Shulman does the Blue Jays broadcasts. He is the best voice in professional sports as far as I'm concerned. But overall I think the Jays announcers are the worst in not being critical. Tabler by far is the biggest brown noser. My goodness I would love to hear just once anything said critical of John Gibbons managerial decisions. FFS there are so many to choose from.
