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Statistics are dangerous because of situations like this. I am removing the defensive references. If you have a compelling reason as to why they are relevant, please use the talk page to explain as it's silly to have an edit war over this. I took the time to make a well thought out case as to why
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It's inaccurate to portray him as a bad fielder based on these statistics. Obviously the statistics are cold hard numbers and are true. Nobody is arguing that. But using them to make a case of his fielding ability is subjective at best. I'm safe to remove the references based simply on wikipedia
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I disagree. Of course his defensive statistics are relevant. They are reported for pitchers, just as they are for other ballplayers. Pitchers received gold glove awards, just as other players do. He met the qualification statistics for pitchers. The entry reflected the arguments mentioned above
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I removed the part about his defense entirely. There are several links on the page that include his stats, and there is no need to list all of his stats on the page. Readers are free to look those up if they are interested. Consequently, readers may presume that those stats mentioned are most
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The number of plays a pitcher make very greatly from year to year. Defensive stats for pitchers are quite irrelevant. If a pitcher would make two errors on one play, which does happen, his fielding percentage could be around .900 at the end of the year. The point I'm making is defense for one
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He's a pitcher so his numbers are skewed due to a very small sample size. He had only 15 chances all year in 29 starts, so a .833 fielding percentage does not tell whether he had a good year defensively. If he made all 15 plays (which even the worst fielder in the majors could potentially do),
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