Introductory phrase designed to make you curious about what it is that I am presenting. Recall, if you will, these spuriously related moments of nostalgia that I am using to favorably prime you for my argument. Here is a small detail that I think you haven’t considered and find to be fascinating, but the rest of the baseball world looks at and goes, “well, yeah?”. THEY SAY it doesn’t matter, but I SAY that the future of the Cleveland Indians franchise relies on it.
Consider the following statistic, cherry-picked from FanGraphs. Also, here is a slash line from randomly selected dates in 2020.