We have a pretty active community of commenters here at VEB. Our conversations in the discussion threads provide regular fodder for articles. We appreciate your input and insight! The site’s active commenters are dwarfed, though, by the large number of readers who faithfully visit VEB to get their daily Cardinals fix without jumping into the fray of discussion.
Today I want to feature one of these readers, Ryan, who wrote me a nice email in response to one of my articles. He had a question that I think is worth my time to answer and your time to read since the subject matters to almost every analysis article we write around here.