Defending Joe Torre

Whether people want to admit it or not, winning at baseball is always about playing the odds. Statistics and numbers have always had a huge place in baseball, and even people back in the day recognized that it was a game based highly on probability and chance.

The ignorant can whine all they want about nerdy sabermetricians, but those nerds are just doing the same things people did a century ago, except now we have more information to work with.

This leads me into some points about today's game, and two of Joe Torre's decisions in particular: Pinch hitting Rafael Furcal for Juan Castro and not bunting with Russell Mar...

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