Highly amusing read if you a.) enjoy statistical analysis and b.) find the incessant references to players as gritty/scrappy/hustlers to be incredibly annoying.
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This part says it all.
And there are a few thousand players somewhere in the middle who I completely neglected.
That being said, I think the article is amusing. Seems like the kind of thing a stat-head would post to only prove how silly it is to rank a player by his "grit-factor.""It may well be that we spectators, who are not divinely gifted as athletes, are the only ones able to truly see, articulate and animate the experience of the gift we are denied. And that those who receive and act out the gift of athletic genius must, perforce, be blind and dumb about it -- and not because blindness and dumbness are the price of the gift, but because they are its essence." - David Foster Wallace
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Before I click on that link, I hate Eckstein and sincerely hope he is number 1 on overrated because of gritiness, AKA he's short and still hits .300.Comment
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Seeing how the Jays have a bunch of big muscular guys and all that jazz I think it's good that we got a little guts in that lineup now. I can't say that you can rate guys based on grittiness and "clutch" and all that stuff but I sincerely believe it's there in some form.Member of the Official OS Bills Backers Club
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Read the link off FJM. Very good stuff.
I pretty much enjoy everything they either write themselves or link to as good, especially anything about Eckstein or other crappy thought to be good players like Torii Hunter.Comment
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wow, just read the heisman preview and almost peed myself. great stuff.Comment
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