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Originally Posted by duncan_idaho
I’ll take Player A all day, everyday. He’s helping me create more runs than the empty average hitter.
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I want both.
Yeah, there are times you want a guy up there that's going to be a 3-true outcomes hitter; maybe he'll walk, maybe he'll K, maybe he'll get into one.
There are also times when you need someone who's gonna give you a different kind of AB.
The Cardinals kinda have shitty versions of both of those guys right now - one's Matt Carpenter and the other is Tommy Edman. The problem with the analysis is that I don't really want either of them on my team at the moment, but there are situations where Edman's more aggressive, contact oriented approach will serve me better.
Now if I could
only have one (I'm guessing as a starter?) and the rest of my team is competently constructed w/ fairly complementary parts, then I"d take Player A - yes. But I'm not going to dismiss the utility of Player B either. The problem with the Player A types is that we simply see too many of them that feast on bad pitchers and get carved up by quality guys. Meanwhile the Player B types tend to be more consistent against both.
If you have a roster full of Player A guys, you're gonna have issues in the post-season when you're facing quality pitchers night in, night out.