When Dusty Baker Starts Chanelling Bill James

Dave Rouleau posted 3/13/2008 from seamheads.com [flag]

Dusty Baker has been called a "OBP-hating Luddite," but his theory about young hitters is no different than that of Bill James. [link]

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Seamheads: DiFilippo: When Dusty Baker Starts Channeling Bill James
Published 3/14/2008 at BBTF's Baseball Primer Newsblog
Seamheads: DiFilippo: When Dusty Baker Starts Channeling Bill James Beans Baker ...step-into-reading comprehension. Of course, Joe Sheehan and others love quotes like this, because they believe in the importance of on-base percentage. To them, of course, it means that Dusty just doesn’t get it. But a respected baseball observer said something very much like what Dusty said. His name? Bill James. Here’s James in the 1984 Bill James Baseball Abstract, writing about Chili Davis: “I’ve always thought that if I were in a position to do so, I’d be very reluctant to try ...

Baseball Today: Friday, March 14
Published 3/14/2008 by Art Martone (amartone@projo.com) at Projo Sox Blog
... WHAT?? The blog Seamheads.com has uncovered a 1984 quote in which Bill James seems to support decisions over which statheads are skewering Dusty Baker. ...

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