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Originally Posted by RonCo
Given Tango's selection criteria (large numbers of plate appearances, for example), I suggest that the impact of injuries beyond day-to-day type bumps and bruises on the Tango numbers is minimal because injured players would not appear in the study very often. Just guessing, though.
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Wouldn't it show up in the absence of those players though? If Albert Pujols gets hurt and doesn't have the at-bats to be in the study, that means a less talented player is getting a lot more at-bats and therefore appears in the study when they wouldn't have had Pujols been healthy.