This morning I saw this tweet from David O’Brien, the Braves beat reporter for the Atlanta Journal Constitution:
Three things: One, the Society for American Baseball Research is SABR and the pretend printer company that was featured as a plotline in “The Office” is SABRE. Two, sabermetrics and SABR are very different things and few SABR members would have much to say about Freddie Freeman because Freddie Freeman did not play in the 1800s. Three, the whole tweet struck me as the beat reporter equivalent of a parent insisting their child is the cutest in the class.All of which is why I was amused just now when O’Brien posted a second, updated version of his original tweet five hours later:
Well, at least those jerks at the pretend television printer company are off the hook now! Oh, and incidentally: Ultimate Zone Rating, which is the most-cited sabermetric defensive stat, rates Freeman as 1.7 runs above average this season.
Some SABRE folks say Freeman not good 1b. In past 2 weeks I’ve heard 3 out-of-town writers and 2 non #Braves coaches say he’s Gold Glover
— David O’Brien (@ajcbraves) August 26, 2013
Three things: One, the Society for American Baseball Research is SABR and the pretend printer company that was featured as a plotline in “The Office” is SABRE. Two, sabermetrics and SABR are very different things and few SABR members would have much to say about Freddie Freeman because Freddie Freeman did not play in the 1800s. Three, the whole tweet struck me as the beat reporter equivalent of a parent insisting their child is the cutest in the class.All of which is why I was amused just now when O’Brien posted a second, updated version of his original tweet five hours later:
Some SABR folks say Freeman not good 1b. In past 2 weeks I’ve heard 3 out-of-town writers and 2 non #Braves coaches say he’s Gold Glover
— David O’Brien (@ajcbraves) August 26, 2013
Well, at least those jerks at the pretend television printer company are off the hook now! Oh, and incidentally: Ultimate Zone Rating, which is the most-cited sabermetric defensive stat, rates Freeman as 1.7 runs above average this season.
