Winning a batting title with Less Ab's Your Thoughts

[acsguitar]

Obviously I want Holliday to win a batting title.

It angers me that people talk more about Chipper, Renteria, Utley then Holliday even though Holliday has more AB's by FAR!!

Chipper has 478
Renteria has 467
Utley has 495
Holliday has 600!

Its gonna so piss me off if Holliday loses the batting title by 1 point because he wasn't injured this year like the other 3

[Yoda]

I understand your frustration as a Rockies fan but the batting title really doesn't mean that much.

[acsguitar]

I understand your frustration as a Rockies fan but the batting title really doesn't mean that much.

Well it means a lot to the city of denvers baseball fan or two trust me

[Art Vandelay]

You have to draw the line somewhere, you can't just give it to whoever has the most ABs. Also, what makes you assume that the other guys wouldn't have been able to keep their production at the same pace for another 100 ABs?

[acsguitar]

You have to draw the line somewhere, you can't just give it to whoever has the most ABs. Also, what makes you assume that the other guys wouldn't have been able to keep their production at the same pace for another 100 ABs?

Why should we assume they can do it when Matt shows he can do it

[great gretzky]

i see your point, but the line has to be drawn somewhere. I mean think of bonds, his ABs were suppressed because of his ability to walk. I think that you can't account for every variable in a discussion like this, rather, you have to establish some minimal standard as the baseline for judgment.

[Noggy]

You have to draw the line somewhere, you can't just give it to whoever has the most ABs. Also, what makes you assume that the other guys wouldn't have been able to keep their production at the same pace for another 100 ABs?

Why should we assume they can do it when Matt shows he can do it

It's no worse than assuming how much lower Holliday's average would be if he didn't play half his games in Coors Field.

[A Fleshner Fantasy]

I can understand your frustration, but what's fair is fair. If you start not giving it to people with 100 less ABs, where do you draw the line?

[Tavish]

You have to draw the line somewhere, you can't just give it to whoever has the most ABs. Also, what makes you assume that the other guys wouldn't have been able to keep their production at the same pace for another 100 ABs?

Why should we assume they can do it when Matt shows he can do it

If Matt had played better he would have won. He just wasn't good enough this year.

[davidmarver]

Didn't the Rockies used to bench Larry Walker when he was going for batting titles so that he wouldn't hurt his average?

The bottom line: instead of complaining about your guy having more ABs than those other guys, perhaps you should look at the other side of the argument, where Braves fans complain about Coors adding ten to fifteen points to Holliday's. It's a much better argument.