I was complaining to a fellow owner about how one of my teams
could have all this bad luck and I offered him the following sob story

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I don't understand purebaseball ......... how can this lineup and rotation be 23-22

Green RF, Bagwell 1B, Jones 3B, Giles CF, Kent 2B, Nilsson/Stinnett C, Trammell/Sefcik LF, C. Davis DH, Renteria SS

Hampton, Smoltz, Rosado, Astacio, Carpenter

the pen is weak on paper.... Shaw, Franco, Cormier, Alfonseca, etc .....but they aren't giving up runs

of course the answer to the question I posed is in the following numbers .... I know the old "sample size" argument.... but we're getting close to 180 at bats on these guys now

Jeff Bagwell -- .246 AVG / .447 SLG / .355 OBP
Brian Giles -- .203 AVG / .367 SLG / .286 OBP

and several other hitters marginally below where they should be .... and then the pitchers

Mike Hampton -- 7.06 ERA
Jose Rosado -- 6.95 ERA
John Smoltz -- 5.25 ERA

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His response to me was:

You must write "small sample size, PB is perfect" on the blackboard 100 times.

I can't find a blackboard so a bulletin board will have to do. Without further ado:

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