Quote Originally Posted by Coach34 View Post
and you totally missed my point that OBP is an overblown stat. Foreskin's OBP is higher than Hines and Clark's but he isn't in the same stratosphere in production. He's almost 100 points higher than Alford but Alford has more production than him.

Bottom line he didnt produce as a freshman and isnt producing as a Junior. Mershon in less than 1/3 of the AB's has the same SB's, on pace to score more runs, hitting 70 points higher currently, has the ability to H&R or bunt for a hit- putting pressure on the D. We've improved our team making the change
Obviously OBP isn't ALL that matters, SLG% matters too. Clark and Hines have a way higher SLG, thus they are overall much more valuable.

This isn't to defend Forsythe, I agree Mershonis better. This is about your cherry picking stats.

You picked 2 stats that make it look like Forsythe hasn't gotten better from '21 to '23. This is cherry picking because if you used the stats that DO matter (OBP and SLG) you'd see his SLG went from .274 to .362 and his OBP from .321 to .402. That's a 32% increase in SLG and a 25% increase in OBP. Its ridiculous to say he "hasn't gotten better"