Statistics are to baseball what a flaky crust is to Mom's apple pie.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Baseball has always been filled with negative statistics.
In baseball, my theory is to strive for consistency, not to worry about the numbers. If you dwell on statistics you get shortsighted, if you aim for consistency, the numbers will be there at the end.
Awards mean a lot, but they don't say it all. The people in baseball mean more to me than statistics.
There are two kinds of statistics, the kind you look up and the kind you make up.
Every time I sit with our general manager at a baseball game, and there's number-cruncher and statistician guy - I'm sitting around - they start talking about stuff, and I say, 'What's that? I've never heard of that one before.'
As most people will tell you, the best pies have the best crusts. It has to be tender, flaky, and full of flavor. That is the key to a great pie.
In baseball you have terrific data and you can be a lot more creative with it.
Baseball is a game of inches.
As American as an apple is and as American as baseball is, they don't go together. You can't be chewing an apple at a baseball game. You've got to let go of the diet that day.
Baseball is not a lot of statistics to me. It's blood and tears.