{"id":3761,"date":"2022-08-31T06:31:20","date_gmt":"2022-08-31T02:31:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=3761"},"modified":"2022-08-31T06:31:20","modified_gmt":"2022-08-31T02:31:20","slug":"statistics-dont-change-but-interpretations-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=3761","title":{"rendered":"Statistics don&#8217;t change, but interpretations do"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In 1970 Reggie Jackson led the American League in two unfortunate categories: strikeouts and caught stealing.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m sure at the time Reggie was given great flak for his high number of strikeouts. But caught stealing? Probably a shrug.<\/p>\n<p>Funny how things change, that in 2022 no one really cares about strikeouts (in most cases an out is an out), whereas being caught stealing is like taking a sharpie to the Mona Lisa.<\/p>\n<p>Definite side eye comin&#8217; your way&#8230; kinda how old-school managers looked at you when you struck out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 1970 Reggie Jackson led the American League in two unfortunate categories: strikeouts and caught stealing. I&#8217;m sure at the time Reggie was given great flak for his high number of strikeouts. But caught stealing? Probably a shrug. Funny how &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=3761\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3761","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3761"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3761\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3766,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3761\/revisions\/3766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}