Sabermetrics have taken a lot of the doubt out of analysis. We can continually break down performance into more and more granular elements, allowing a deeper understanding of a particular player than ever before. We’ll never know how Babe Ruth fared against curve balls, but today I can tell you how often Mike Trout swings at pitches out of the zone.
This leads to an awful lot of fun when you have a player that the metrics are confused about. Case in point: CC Sabathia. The old lefty has had a roller coaster of 2018, varying between solid, better than solid, and unwatchably bad.