Scott Boras argues for better stats!

Scott Boras, infamous in baseball circles for offering up players at ever increasing prices struggled to unload...errr to give players the money they deserved. Cases in point were Manny Ramirez and Johnny Damon. However, thanks to the new stats in baseball, Scott is confident everything is going to change.

"The problem with managers is that they don't see the overall picture. They look at these stat sheets and get nowhere. Certainly OBP (on base percentage) is a great state. Now guys who hit into double plays and look like idiots can get credit for getting on base as long as they beat it to the bag! It really makes players look good. Also look at the Hold number for pitchers. You could give up 13 runs and as long as you don't give up the lead you get credit. I love it....but not that much of course. Now take the new numbers. Take for example the BCP. If you look at that number, those .110 hitters are ignored and that's bad for baseball."

The BCP (or bat contact percentage) calculates the number of times that the player actually makes contact with the ball. It does not consider if an actual hit came out of it. Even a foul tip raises the numbers. The BCP is really a lifesaver to many players who were let go. The New York Mets now wished they fought harder for Julio Lugo who struggled desperately at the plate.

"Another problem with managers is defense. They fail to look at the all important number of GBCP. That number alone shows how good these players are. I'm already getting calls from players with s0-called-errors because managers now realize it wasn't their fault. It was the rules of the game."

The GBCP (Ground ball contact percentage) calculates if the player actually makes any contact with the baseball. Even if it touches their finger and rolls politely into left field for a hit, will be counted as a talented move by the player. Some have argued this is a total sham but baseball commissioner Bud Selig sats its a good idea -- whatever it was that was said.

"Another problem is injuries but once again baseball managers fail to realize just how healthy our players are! The NDP will show that actually no player in baseball really gets injured. J.D. Drew is actually one healthy player and so is Julio Lugo. Dice-K himself, according to this new statistic exposes the fact that Dice-K did play all last season but nobody recorded it."

The NDP (Not dead percentage) calculates if the player is actually alive. This gives Dice-K a perfect health record despite not playing most of last season with nagging injuries -- that weren't actually injuries since he wasn't dead or something like that. Managers are in an uproar but Dice-K and others say its finally going to relive the frustration they felt when they NP healthy.

"The NP (not play) stat shows that all players have perfect attendace even if they didn't play since it works in conjunction with the NDP (not dead percentage). In other words, as long as you are not dead, you were at that game. Finally instead of saying that these players don't play, we can see they do. Come on, Jed Lowrie had a fantastic full season last year with a staggering amount of at bats."

Jed Lowrie had a 100% NP (not played) stat since he missed all of last season due to an apparently non-wrist injury since his NDP (not dead percentage) was at 100%. Jed said, "and they said I was not healthy. Those idiots. Don't they realize that my NP and my NDP was at 100%.

"When you add it all up, each player should be making over 400 million a year. Take Julio Lugo. Under the old stats, he was terrible but when you look at his NDP (not dead percentage) and his NP (not played) and his BCP (bat contact percentage) and especially his GBCP (ground ball contact percentage) you have a winner. Then you add his TTP at 100% you've got a future Hall of Famer!"

The TTP or target throwing percentage means that if you get the ball and manage to throw it...anywhere, that increases your TTP or target throwing percentage since the target is the air around you. Even if you throw it into the stands your TTP goes up. Julio Lugo, who made it a specialty to throw the ball into the stands took great pride in his new stat adding that the Red Sox had treated him cruely by saying he was an embarrassment to the team. All they have to do is look at the TTP and see the reality.

"Finally, the UCRA you have pitchers that are at their prime. I'm tired of pitchers with an ERA of 10. Look at UCRA and you have .01. Sign them up!"

The UCRA (uncounted run average) examines what actually constitutes a run. Considering that the TTP (target throwing percentage) as well as GBCP (ground ball contact percentage) we realize that the run was inevitable since no error is possible anymore no matter what the pitcher did and serves as an uncounted run. If you have no idea what we just said, neither do we but apparently Scott Boras has argued the number is perfectly clear if you look at it long enough. We tried and still didn't get it but certainly Scott wasn't trying to pull a fast one on baseball. Now subtract the ERA (earned run average) from the UCRA (uncounted runs) and you get a really low ERA. Actually with this stat the numbers are usually negative. For example, with an E.R.A. of 10.12 and a UCRA of 12 you have an adjusted ERA of -2.12.

Now many former baseball players call this the "death of baseball" as we know it. Bud Selig calls it "nap time" so we have no comment from him but for players like Julio Lugo, it's a second life. He recently said, "Basball can make you look awful. Even with a 329 batting average, oh how I dreamed...that still means, on average, the other 7 times you got an out. I can't live with that, but thanks to the BCP (bat contact percentage), I'm unstoppable and even when I get a hit, thanks to the UCRA (uncounted run average) and my NDP (not dead percentage) I can really tear up the field. Oh man my head hurts. Does anyone understand these statistics besides Scott Boras! Oh ya, my TTP is also high!

"The big lesson here is how we look at the numbers. Do it right and we are looking at people who no longer need steroids. They just need their adjustments. All those power hitters belting out 100 to 2000 PHR's realize that!

"The PHR or possible home run looks at the idea that if you meant to get a home run but it flew instead into the air to be caught, that counts as a possible home run. Bud Selig said that Hank Aaron's record was beaten a long time ago. I had no idea that Johnny Damon hit 5000 PHR's a year. In five years along that 25 thousand PHR's or HR's for short...that's right isn't it.

We leave it for you to decide