It is easy to mock what we don’t understand, or even just ignore it. Hearing that J.D. Drew had an Ultimate Zone Rating of 10.5 in right field last season can bring to mind the image of a bespectacled geek sitting at his computer and coming up with a statistic impossible to comprehend. (Full article: 1245 words)

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