Originally Posted by
sagegrouse
Isn't the approach of Billy Beane to rely disproportionately on stats generated by college baseball players and ignore HS players altogether? In college, you are at least controlling somewhat for the level of competition. IIRC (and there is always a first time) he was especially fond of on-base percentage.
sagegrouse
Not exactly. He has an aversion to high school pitchers, and college stats (for obvious reasons) are more telling than high school stats, but he does not ignore high school players altogether.
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