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This is immaterial. You said average, and those are quite literally the average of MLB and the AL. Again, this premise is wrong. You keep making definitive statements as if they are fact, but the numbers are just not there for them. Your opinions are not supported by the actual facts here.

Also this is wrong. MLB average today is .249/.319/.730, the AL clocks in slightly higher at .250/.318/.734 http://www.espn.com/mlb/stats/team/_/stat/batting

This thread makes my head hurt.

As has been proven statistically in the other thread, if you have two shortstops as good, or better than Tim Anderson you would have two league average (or better) shortstops. The idea that Tim Anderson is a bench player is just false. Half of MLB would have Tim Anderson starting on their teams. Just because one stat is bad, doesn't mean he is bad. This thread is so wrong, Snopes is about to take it up.

Especially since if you actually take the time and do peer comparisons, the narrative in question here has been definitively proven false, repeatedly.

His actual RC+ which I quoted earlier is right in the middle of the pack today for all MLB SS's. That stat's only purpose is the attempt to quantify what a players complete offensive package contributes versus other ML players. This stat is the most complete look at offense in terms of runs generated. The fun part? Anderson's OPS also ranks 16th among all MLB SSs, again right smack in the middle of the pack. Quite literally if you look at any other stat than OBP, Tim Anderson is in the middle of the pack, or better.

Scoring runs is the heart of offense, it is quite literally the point of baseball. It's why we lead with runs, and not walks or hits, when we say what is going on in a game. Anderson creates runs and he is whiz a preventing them.

Fry must just be impossible to pick up the ball on.

ReyLo, The Last Jedi.

Hopefully they Google it and them watch the greatest movie of all time.

And half of Soxtalk is pissed about it hurting draft position.

No. Anymore questions?

That's Heady Lamarr.

Engel, not to be outdone by Hicks.

Damn Hicks with another beauty.

And now Stanton goes from bases loaded to leading off an inning.

Nice play on both ends of that. Perfect throw and tag. That is not an easy play for a pitcher to make while running to cover home.

Yeah, to be clear the Yankees went in looking fastball, and Lopez has been commanding all of his off speed stuff to make it work.

Nice stop by Smith.

97 on strike 2.

Davidson should get that ER.

Somebody needs turn that Davidson play into a bad day gif.

He seriously just overran that ball by what, 10 feet? And instead of an out, it turns into a base hit.

Damn it Davidson.

Lopez just 95.