RE:Damn Yankees
Whether or not you believe that Ortiz's offensive numbers are better or not is irrelevant. They simply arent. He has a better batting average with the bases loaded? Damn that is an important stat. Where did you find that anyway. That is not even on espns splits page. The 3 other stats you mentioned and even the bases loaded stat all overlap. Ie if Ortiz is signifigantly better with Risp and 2 out it effects all the other numbers are improved as well and thus those numbers dont make alot of sense to be used in conjuction with each other. I agree that risp is important but Arod has had a better year at the plate. OPS is univerisally considered the best measure of a hitter and Arod beats him there. Arod beats him in 2 of the 3 triple crown categories so if you want to go by raw numbers arod wins. Arod beats him in just about all the sabermetric numbers so if you by them Arod wins. Again that is only including hitting which is the ONLY thing Ortiz does vs its one of many things Arod does WELL.
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