What Do Tyler White's Spring Stats Mean? Some Spring Batting Stats Mean More Than Others.
At sabermetric-oriented blogs like TCB, you will frequently read, "Spring training statistics are meaningless," or "Ignore spring stats." As a generalization, these statements make sense. But some spring training stats have meaning in the context of contributing useful information to gauge a player's future. We're not talking about all spring stats--batting average is the first spring stat which many people cite, but it isn't meaningful. However, some batting stats that begin to stabilize in smaller samples may provide a small but useful predictive contribution.