Joe Starkey
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
Not in the top 10 in home runs that year, but he was number one in war.
First of all... Carlos Gomez was second in war that year.
7.6 for the Brewers.
McCutcheon hit .317 that year, and his OPS was...
Six in the league.
He had a 9-11 OPS.
Goldschmidt had a pretty good case for MVP, didn't he?
Except that Arizona didn't go to the playoffs.
That's a problem, too.
McCutcheon had a 4-0-4 on base.
He had a 4-10 on base the next year.
So that's also arguing against what you're arguing because the guy who was ahead of him statistically in that case, his team wasn't very good.
Whereas the guy who's... All the guys, and there's many of them, who are ahead of Cole Caulfield are in the playoffs.
No, my point was...
Points do matter, but how do you elevate your team to get to the playoffs and how valuable are you to your individual franchise?
That's what I think is very, very important.