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Can analytics reveal the true value of Hall of Fame centerfielder Rich Ashburn?Peter Bond, Philadelphia USA, Creative Commons Attribution 2.0. If you are a baseball fan of a certain age, you probably learned most of what you know about baseball statistics like I did – from the backs of baseball cards. It was a simpler time. You rated your heroes by BA and ERA and H and HR and W and L and SO and BB and you were happy. Today things are much more complicated. Bill James and Moneyball and Sabermetrics happened and now all the data available can't fit on a multi-page spreadsheet, let alone the back of a baseball card. All this data can be daunting to a baseball writer raised on AB and PO.