Read this again, and think about your argument. It makes no sense unless you think that the other four players somehow would have hit better if they had been given games at 1B because they were playing 1B.
I think that there have been instances where a player's numbers were different when batting DH vs. playing in the field, and that has sometimes been attributed to "being in the game" or what have you. But it's hard to see why the relevant hitting stats are their numbers "as first basemen," rather than just their overall numbers. Fielding stats and hitting stats are generally thought to be independent variables.
If we're considering how bad Dalbec was at 1B, April-July 2021, we ought to look at his numbers at 1B, April-July 2021. That was (and is) the context for what I wrote.
If someone says the overall numbers at 1B, April-July 2021, are bad
in part because players-other-than-Dalbec were bad at 1B, we ought to look at those numbers for those players at 1B for April-July 2021.
Whether or not those players sucked ass elsewhere or elsewhen simply isn't relevant to the question of exactly how bad Dalbec was at 1B, April-July 2021, vis-a-vis players-other-than-Dalbec at 1B for April-July 2021.
Nor are Dalbec's numbers, elsewhere and elsewhen, relevant to the question of exactly how bad Dalbec was at 1B, April-July 2021.
So, in that context,
when someone presents numbers from elsewhere and elsewhen, attempting to suggest those numbers show players-other-than-Dalbec depressed the numbers at 1b, April-July 2021, is is, in professional parlance, a patently bogus argument. A time waster. An issue fudger. And not worth time.
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I am not arguing Danny Santana should have replaced Dalbec.
I am not arguing the Sox would or could or should have traded for anyone.
I am not making some kind of Chaim Bloom argument one way or the other.
Sometimes, one can just look at what's there, without distorting the facts to score an argument, or leaping to some kind of conclusion, or attempting to show one was really right, all along.
Fucking shocking, I know, but there you have it.
I have said I'm out and people still keep addressing me. Would you please all think whatever you want, and stop pinging me on this thread?