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.I really hate these new baseball stats like WAR, WHIP and OPS. Give it to me simple, man. I like my homers, RBIs, and ERA.
No problem with ERA. It’s a simple stat that measures your production fairly accurately. It has its limits, but it is the best of the old school stats’s