WAR, what is it good for?

[ruby23]

<!--quoteo(post=81545:date=Mar 4 2010, 03:35 PM:name=KBwsb)-->QUOTE (KBwsb @ Mar 4 2010, 03:35 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><!--quotec--><!--quoteo(post=81445:date=Mar 4 2010, 07:06 AM:name=ruby23)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (ruby23 @ Mar 4 2010, 07:06 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><!--quotec--><!--quoteo--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE <!--quotec-->minor-league stats are an excellent indicator of how a player will play in MLB<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
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Bill James may be a sarcastic ass who knows absolutely nothing about baseball, but just for the heck of it, read as far down as #1:

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"What I wanted to write about... is a very basic question. Of all the studies I have done over the last 25 years, what have I learned? What is the relevance of sabermetric knowledge to the decision making process of a team? If I were employed by a major-league team, what are the basic things that I know from the research I have done which would be of use to me in helping that team?"

1.Minor league batting statistics will predict major league batting performance with essentially the same reliability as previous major league statistics.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
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That doesn't say anything remotely close to this: "minor-league stats are an excellent indicator of how a player will play in MLB."