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Posted By: Ed Ivey

Personal stats such as K's don't bother me much. In fact, I'm impressed, though it may not always be best for the team if the pitcher is such motivated, with the pitch count being elevated, and pitchers getting overly aggressive in the strike zone.

Now I have to go off topic. If you want a stat that needs debunking it's the sack statistic in football. It hurts the team. Defensive linemen - you know the type of ego (Gastineau etc.), over-committing at the line of scrimmage, always looking for the glorious sack, and getting burned inside on the run.

I didn't mean to divert. My point is that individual statistics should be scrutinized in team sports, so I applaud this thread. Didn't Marris ask Houk if he could try bunting as his record season was ending? There's a team player.

Did it hurt the Orioles to play Ripken as long as they did? Aw, who cares. I'm a Yanks fan and I'm rambling.