There is a great back-and-forth here between a play-by-play man and the color guy, Steve Lyons, your usual old ballplayer that perhaps feels threatened by and doesn’t understand new stats. Good responses from Collins.
Sons of Steve Garvey: Collins & Lyons Like Oscar & Felix: “Eric Collins and Steve Lyons, from last night’s telecast:
Collins: I was talking last inning about Gordon Beckham and his OPS. OPS, some people just kind of gloss over that. But it is fairly indicative of a quality player. You look in the history of baseball, you look at the on-base percentage plus slugging percentage, and without fail, the top ten players are all the elite of the elite in the history of major league baseball.
And I know it’s college baseball, but Gordon Beckham last year…”
(Via ShysterBall.)