I like to think I’ve grown beyond the days where I feel the need to talk at people about baseball statistics. There will still be the occasional conversation where pitching wins get cited, and whatever, that’s fine. The fact is, though, that there are so, so many ways to try to track, to quantify, to evaluate baseball players and their performance these days that I can barely keep track of them all myself, which does make me chuckle at the old ‘WAR vs. batting average’ debates of yesteryear.
Derek Dietrich, who was granted his release today by the Cincinnati Reds, was a career .