Baseball has been witnessing a boom in popularity and use of advanced metrics in recent history. Starting with the “Moneyball” Oakland Athletics and still being largely present today, advanced stats have become almost integral to gaining a better understanding of talent evaluation. Baseball is really growing beyond those one-size-fits-all metrics that have been in the league for years. That is not to say that those stats are not useful, because they still very much can be. The issue arises, though, when you cannot totally judge a hitter, pitcher or fielder based off their given archetypes when those basic stats are not very niche in any regard.
The Importance of Advanced Statistics in Baseball Today
