Freakish stats

[ipitch]

If you prefer Luis Gonzalez's superior consistency, fine.

Um, it's a fact that he was more consistent! It's not even debatable.

[ol' aches and pains]

Um, it's a fact that he was more consistent! It's not even debatable.

I wasn't debating it.

[savior]

I checked home/road splits from Musial's era, and the reason I say he was wasn't amazingly consistent is because the league difference between home and road batting averages was approximately .010 (give or take a few points), and his difference was .010. So, his consistency was very ordinary. Like I said before, there are numerous players who were much more consistent when it comes to H/R BAs. Strong words like "amazing" and "remarkable" should be saved for those players, if they should be used at all.

Well, I'll use the words I choose to use to express my opinion, not yours - and that's all your posts amount to, your opinion. I think your position is silly. So what if the league difference between home and road BA is .01 [we can dispense with the extra zero, can't we?]. Musial did it at a 32-33% level, not .283 or whatever. Instead of just SAYING so, how about citing twenty players who have or had been as consistent at such a high level of BA for as long a period of time, showing their BA's home and away and their home/road differential.

By the way, WHEN was the league differential .01 ["approximately"]? And which "points" are you giving and which are you taking?

[savior]

Jeez-----!

What most of us on htis thread are talking about is consistent greatness.

Who gives a holy chaw about a player who is consistently BAD???

---Or about consistent nitpicking?

[savior]

What's a fact is that you have just got to have your own way, no matter how twisted, and are completely intolerant of those who see the forest as WELL as the trees.

Debate it all you want. It won't change the truth of it.

[ipitch]

Well, I'll use the words I choose to use to express my opinion, not yours - and that's all your posts amount to, your opinion. I think your position is silly. So what if the league difference between home and road BA is .01 [we can dispense with the extra zero, can't we?]. Musial did it at a 32-33% level, not .283 or whatever. Instead of just SAYING so, how about citing twenty players who have or had been as consistent at such a high level of BA for as long a period of time, showing their BA's home and away and their home/road differential.

Um, I never said there were 20 players who did it at such a high level! I'm only arguing that he wasn't amazingly consistent. He was merely par for the course (CONSISTENCY-WISE ONLY).

What I did do is pick 5 pretty good players, at random, and checked their splits. Two of them had identical home and road averages for their career (Luis Gonzalez and Garret Anderson). I'm not about to spend an hour looking for 18 more of them, but I'm sure they're out there.

By the way, WHEN was the league differential .01 ["approximately"]? And which "points" are you giving and which are you taking?

In Musial's era, like I said. See here for some examples...
http://www.baseball-reference.com/le...=MLB&year=1943
http://www.baseball-reference.com/le...=MLB&year=1946
http://www.baseball-reference.com/le...=MLB&year=1949
http://www.baseball-reference.com/le...=MLB&year=1952
http://www.baseball-reference.com/le...=MLB&year=1955
http://www.baseball-reference.com/le...=MLB&year=1958

Eyeballing the stats, it looks like the difference between home and road averages was about .010. I'm not about waste an hour calculating it exactly. There's no point in doing that. It makes little difference if it's .005, .010, or .015.

To sum up: Musial was a great, great hitter. Consistency-wise, he was par for the course. But, not having the same home and road batting averages is certainly no big deal at all. It doesn't even drop him down one bit in my book.