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Why the economics of Major League Baseball may never be the same

For the serious fans, new hitting stats like OBP (on-base percentage) and OPS (a combination of OBP and power) quickly became a fundamental part of the modern game's lexicon and were elevated above traditional measures — regarded by Beane as relics of... Full Article at MinnPost.com

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