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No, Batting .400 Doesn’t Make You MVP

No, Batting .400 Doesn’t Make You MVP

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Paul White
Jun 24, 2023
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Every now and then, somebody posts something like this on Twitter:

I read it, and try very hard not to pull out my hair at the remarkable layers of wrongness on display.

Look, Luis Arraez is having a wonderful season, and is a legitimate MVP candidate. Sing his praises, he deserves them. But don’t pretend like batting average and value equate to each othe…

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