Randy also posted a 0.337 BABIP during his time with Seattle in 1998 before being traded, which was almost the highest BABIP he posted in his entire career. This means that the ever so slightly elevated numbers he posted that season in Seattle were entirely explainable simply by bad luck. Nothing about his statistics from 1998 are indicative of him throwing games or pitching worse than he was capable of during his stint with Seattle. This is not just my opinion or me trying to say something controversial. It's a simple fact. If you disagree, you simply don't understand how statistics works with sample sizes, variance/luck, and confidence intervals.
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