This weekend, baseball writers and other amateur sabermetricians were sent into outrage when Joel Sherman of the New York Post published his column, describing how advanced statistics were killing the game of baseball. “Pooh-pooh[ing]” the basics like pitcher wins and RBI’s has created a detrimental disconnect between generations of baseball fans, Sherman claims.
My Mom sent me the article in a text message on Sunday morning. Just like I think people do with my articles, initially I read the headline and scoffed. Then I read the article, and simmered over football, and then read the article again.