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Originally Posted by knockahoma
...Boston's defensive stars were Dwight Evans +27...
The AL West in 74 ended like this:
Oakland 38.8
Texas -28.8 (5gb)
Min -20
chic -39.3
kc -25
cal -25
So far, this stat makes old school baseball people look good in many instances.
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I was only 4 for most of the 1974 season and didn't get into baseball much until the Jays arrived three years later. Then it was: hockey? What hockey? Well, not quite. That came later during the explosion of 24-hour sports. The media up here's always been about 90% hockey, or so it seems to the hockey-fatigued, hanging in to catch a brief, fleeting glimpse of baseball/football/basketball/tennis/soccer/hot dog eating contests/etc...and now back to hockey! Groan!
Thank goodness for the interwebs.
Good to see Dewey get his due here, and Grich for that matter. That AL West looks pathetic defensively, save of course Oakland. A stat that brings together stats geeks and old school baseball people? Awesome. Now maybe all the territorial p*** fights can simmer down a bit more and we can get back to enjoying baseball instead of bickering.
