This is a followup to yesterdays write up/links. First off here’s a quick quote by David Wright, as printed in a  Daily News Q&A, about the increasing popularity of baseball statistics:

6. How do you feel about the continued growth in popularity of statistics, especially non-traditional ones?

DW: I don’t even know what half the stuff is, but whatever. Baseball’s a numbers game and a game of statistics, so the more interest there is in baseball, the better, and that’s kind of the trend that the game’s going toward is number guys and making sure that guys have those kinds of numbers. I don’t have a problem with it, but I don’t understand most of it.

TB: Do you have a favorite stat that anyone’s ever told you about yourself?

DW: No. But for our team, on-base percentage is a big stat.

The article I want to point you in the direction of is in today’s Hardball Times, and is written by one of their regular contributors John Brattain. It’s called These Numbers are Disconnected and tries to make a cohesive, intelligent, argument against the blind use of stats. It seems funny that someone would have to make an argument that there is indeed a human element in baseball, but I suppose this is what its come to.

Don’t miss the comments section (linked to at Ballhype) because some of the bigger sames in the Sabremetrics world have been checking in, making their cases.