I TOLD YOU SO! Sorta.

I remember reading that and the comments. Interesting discussion about Tito, who will be missed and, hopefully, remember with fondness and gratitude. Amazing undervaluing Ells, and I’m beginning to understand a. Inherent problem with advanced metrics: they are simply less flexible than the players they so narrowly measure. Ironically, the sample that was used to demean and seriously damage Ells’ standing and value to the Sox was too small at the time to make such devastating claims. The #s themselves, even if the sample had been large enough to be accurate, have no way to interpret or allow for any kind of the growth (from emotional maturity to developing a more powerful body to a slightly altered swing to learning how to read CF.) that Ells showed in 2011. I’m not sure which was more hurtful and vindictive to him, judgemental and angry attacks by the media by new metrics fans sacrificing Ells to Reinforce their position as true arbiters of a person’s worth. IMO the media, some players, the medical staff, and his loudly vocal new metrics fanatics (as opposed to advocates).