I like numbers, and not surprisingly, I like baseball. More specifically, I like looking at the numbers that the game of baseball produces, and the statistics that researchers have come up with to compare player performance.
But I have difficultly loving defensive wins above replacement, particularly because dWAR is susceptible to wild swings from season to season, but especially if believing in dWAR means I have to believe that Dave Winfield was as bad a fielder as, or worse than, Manny Ramirez. (scroll to the "Player Value" table and see that Winfield's career dWAR is lower than Manny's). I'm just having a hard time with that idea.
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