Make baseball a five-year-old you throw the wiffleball to, over and over in the summer sunshine, watching her miss each time. Then hiss crowd noise into the air when she finally puts her plastic bat on the ball and runs laughing around no bases.
Why we shouldn’t be so quick to assume that statistical principles don’t apply to particular players.
Are we still too accepting of the idea that pitchers have little to no control over balls in play?