You said that Hutchison's crazy high BABIP was due to his penchant for giving up lots of line drives. I never contested that he gives up line drives. Of course line drives have a higher chance of becoming hits but it's not that simple. I sorted by highest LD% and the BABIP numbers do not go up as LD% goes up. Thus, your silly argument for why Hutch has a .350 BABIP is not valid.
Yeah because there IS NO CORRELATION.
Here's a second one so we can go past this year. From 2002-2015 min 600 ip:
http://i.imgur.com/IXqmzcz.png
Please tell me, where is this correlation?
Overall, his numbers are pretty similar. Last year he was an above average starter, this year he is an above average starter. He's just the anti-Sanchez and once again we see people placing far too much stock in earned runs.
A lot of people swear by Big Bang Theory and American Idol too.
Maybe they are catering to the dim masses who need to be cockslapped in the face with jokes.
People always overreact when one guy gets the better player. I think it's a pretty nice trade for FTD, gap between Stanton and Trout isn't really that huge.
One of the worst SS defenders to ever play the game. Him staying at SS when A-Rod came over was laughable.
Exactly how bad he was is hard to say because DRS/UZR were not around for a large part of his career (and while he was young.)