Sitting out for the batting title...

[1952boyntoncollector]

Originally Posted by Peter_Spaeth

Sitting out to win a title is cowardly. Period. Be a mensch, either win it or lose it by playing. Missing midseason games has nothing to do with it.

Thats mishigas..

The guy did win it, he played more games than the other guy. If going on cowardly there are so many things to look at.

For example

Maybe the guy that won the title and played in more games also played in more games at much less than 100% (which would cause more reasons to make more outs) versus the guy that came in second

If you played 145 or whatever games who cares about missing the last game especially when you have more at bats than the guy chasing you.. (also assuming games are meaningless and team wants to give a prospect a chance to play etc)

DJ 552 at bats. D. Murphy 531 at bat.

DJ. had 19 more at bats....so apparently daniel murphy did more sitting out, or choosing not to play hurt etc.

all games count and at bats. Its too easy to say its cowardly not playing the last game when you dont know how the second guy arrived to his batting average (ie. played in less games, didnt play at all when slightly hurt and im sure many more things can be looked at)