It’s important to remember that Mike Petriello is a Dodgers fan first and foremost. The post coincided with the Giants moving to within one game of the Dodgers in the NL West when the Dodgers were supposed to be 10 games up on the division by now. So, this felt like a drive by shooting at a rival while at the same time being emblematic of the very worst that baseball analytics writing offers to the general public: mainly, that it’s no fun.
The average person probably encounters analytics-driven baseball writing in this way:
FAN: Wow, I LOVE this player!