... who has pitched three scoreless innings this season.

Year	W    L	W-L%  ERA    G    GS   CG  SHO  SV   IP      H     R    ER   HR	 BB     SO	BF  ERA+  FIP    WHIP   H9  HR9	  BB9  SO9  SO/W
																													
12 Yrs	165  71	.699  2.41  339  337   25   15   0  2233.1  1679  652  597  160	 564   2416   8790  159   2.68   1.004  6.8  0.6  2.3  9.7   4.28
12 Yrs	165  87	.655  2.76  397  314  137   40   9  2324.1  1754  806  713  204	 817   2396   9497  131   2.69   1.106  6.8  0.8  3.2  9.3   2.93

Clearly not a clutch hitter. Good that the organization discover this early.

Danny Jansen Splits

Month	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS	K%	BB%
March	0.167	0.167	0.167	0.334	16.67%	0.00%
April	0.185	0.286	0.259	0.545	30.65%	11.29%
May	0.143	0.217	0.238	0.455	23.19%	8.70%
June	0.246	0.328	0.404	0.732	14.06%	10.94%
July	0.24	0.296	0.48	0.776	19.75%	3.70%
August	0.275	0.326	0.6	0.926	18.60%	6.98%

Brandon Drury Splits

Month	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS	K%	BB%
March	0.235	0.235	0.412	0.647	35.29%	0.00%
April	0.217	0.27	0.446	0.716	34.83%	5.62%
May	0.24	0.263	0.333	0.596	23.08%	3.85%
June	0.135	0.224	0.192	0.416	27.59%	10.34%
July	0.262	0.3	0.538	0.838	18.84%	5.80%
August	0.288	0.302	0.519	0.821	16.98%	1.89%

Randall Grichuk Splits

Month	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS	K%	BB%
March	0	0.2	0	0.2	33.33%	13.33%
April	0.276	0.317	0.469	0.786	27.88%	5.77%
May	0.214	0.281	0.398	0.679	29.20%	8.85%
June	0.22	0.278	0.44	0.718	28.70%	6.48%
July	0.237	0.282	0.375	0.657	22.35%	3.53%
August	0.292	0.333	0.662	0.995	21.74%	5.80%

Well, Bichette was a bad outfielder in a park with the biggest OF around with batted balls being faster do to less air resistance... Statcast would probably have a hell of a time with those numbers, let alone the far more primitive defensive metrics of the mid-90's. That'd be enough to kill his WAR. Heck, his 1999 was hilariously bad defensively on both fangraphs and baseball-reference. He must have actually been running away from the ball that year.

James was joined by Pete Palmer who shed yet more light on player evaluations, albeit with a method I am not enamored by (using means as a baseline rather than replacement level). The Elias Sports Bureau, big shots at the time, looked to cash in by aping the format of Bill James' yearly Abstracts but added precious little to the conversation, flexing their muscles (due to computerized access to privately owned data) to offer little more than semi-interesting trivia. Insight was not their forte, but they spoke with self-imposed authority, dismissive of anyone else in the field.

Come the 1990s, the quant "uprising" was under way, but far far from where it is today. Dante Bichette was especially emblematic of the disparity in thinking between the two worlds. Those who had drunk from the fountain of enlightenment, saw Bichette as an imposter propped up by Coors and cursed with a wretched glove. The mainstream, especially the BBWAA, saw fit to rank him 2nd in MVP voting off what we see now to be a 1.2 WAR season.

Modern day front offices would all valuate Bichette appropriately. Were he a modern day player, it is unlikely he would earn 40M (or the modern day equivalent) on a career worth less than 10 WAR.

To me, he will forever stand as one of the poster boys of ignorant times.

Sidenote: Bo's career bWAR is at 1.4. He trails dad by just 4.3.