“Mea culpa on the pre-injury numbers. Am I having false memories?”

I don’t blame you, considering all the praise for Minky thrown around on this site in the weeks before his injury.

BTW, it’s easy to get hitting stats for a particular span on baseballreference.com. If you go to gamelogs you can simply click on the first and last dates of a timespan in a season and you will get stats for that time.

Still and all I prefer him to Phillips, and if the powers-that-be see his rehab numbers as trending I would throw him directly into the mix given his playoff experience and stellar D.

Eye Chart is no longer at that defensive level.

I hate idiotic nerds like you.

yes, we should just ignore valuable information.

the problem with “stat geeks” is when they assume the numbers tell 100% of the story. which they don’t.

the same applies to the “anti-stat” crowd, who assume their eyes tell them 100% of the story. which they don’t.

i don’t understand the willful arrogance on one side of the debate, and the willful ignorance on the other side.

sometimes numbers illuminate things we would overlook. since Andy Phillips had a few hits against Robertson the other day, we might think he hits lefties pretty well b/c that is fresh in our memory, but looking at the numbers, it’s obvious he doesn’t. of course, those numbers might obscure 20 scorching line drives he hit that were caught. though i guess we could look that up as well if we had the time or inclination.

the point is, it’s silly to dismiss one side or the other.

Readers, if you must be a stat geek, for Tigger’s sake, please try to be an offensive stat geek.

“This Dougie Mientkiewicz love is the most hilariously representative example of armchair-managing around here, which is saying A LOT.”

I fixed your message for you. And a generic, stat-free “Mientkiewicz is a great fielder” article from 2005 doesn’t do much for me.

“Also — after a terrible start, and before he got hurt, he was raking at the plate. Check it.”

Don’t mind if I do. Between May 16 and June 2, Mientkiewicz hit .211/.286/.342.

In the week before he got injured, he hit .188/.235/.188.

You can look at any broader or narrower portion of his stats, but you will always come up with simply execrable numbers. He was an automatic out before he got injured and there’s no reason to think he’d be any better now.

Phillips is terrible, but he is better than Mientkiewicz. And I don’t see any reason to put two no-hit first basemen with roughly similar fielding skills on the team.