I think it goes without saying that I am not a sabermatrician. I’m not that smart. I see some of the more intensive baseball analyses out there — the ones that have charts and graphs and the formula on the board from Good Will Hunting — and I’m entirely lost, not unlike the first day of chemistry class when the teacher said, “Well, obviously we don’t want to mix THIS chemical with THIS chemical” and everyone else kind of laughed and shook their head and said, “NOOOOO!” and I realized I really needed to get into something like journalism.
That said, of course, I like cool baseball statistics. I like how they can open up the game. And so I do make a moderate effort to keep up with what’s going on. I read my Baseball Prospectus. I go online to read articles about promising new and better stats.