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Following up an earlier post. Somebody pointed out to me that in their 1999 book Rany stated that he viewed PAP as a starting point and not the be all of use evaluation, and there was another quotation that escapes me at the moment with a similar sentiment. I stand corrected. I will however say that
1) There appeared (at the time) to be little effort to back up the numbers that PAP produced with evidence that high PAP ~= high injury levels.
2) This disclaimer didn't discourage the metric and its proponents from pushing it rather vigorously.
3) I'm looking forward to reading Keith Woolner's article on pitcher (ab)use, and you can be sure that I'll post my comments here, and you all will be able to tell me that I'm full of it or not.
Following up an earlier post. Somebody pointed out to me that in their 1999 book Rany stated that he viewed PAP as a starting point and not the be all of use evaluation, and there was another quotation that escapes me at the moment with a similar sentiment. I stand corrected. I will however say that
1) There appeared (at the time) to be little effort to back up the numbers that PAP produced with evidence that high PAP ~= high injury levels.
2) This disclaimer didn't discourage the metric and its proponents from pushing it rather vigorously.
3) I'm looking forward to reading Keith Woolner's article on pitcher (ab)use, and you can be sure that I'll post my comments here, and you all will be able to tell me that I'm full of it or not.
posted by Sean Foran # 9:02 AM 
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