Talk:Darrell Evans

Were Evans' father and uncles in the minors or more obscure semipro ball? - --Mischa 20:25, 21 September 2006 (EDT)

The article about Darrell Evans is simply incorrect, and when I tried to correct it, the correction was reverted. Here is the sentence that I tried to change: "Some of the argument forwarded by James is faulty (he cites Evans as being a player with many strong skills when walks and power were the only two) but the opinion is shared by many with a statistical inclination . . . " It is objectively clear that Evans was NOT a player with only two skills - just as Bill James says - since Evans had an extremely good lifetime range factor in 1442 games at third base, and was versatile enough in the field that he played 22 games at shortstop along with his 856 at first base. He also showed some speed, stealing 17 bases at age 33 and getting caught only 5 times, and hitting 8 triples in 1973. The quotation from the article is just downright mean, when it would be more accurate and objective to say that not everyone agrees with James. In fact, it would be as accurate to say that Evans' only lack was his batting average. So why isn't this article allowed to be objective? - Randy 21:54, 21 May 2007 (EDT)

Since when is walks and power a bad combination? The whole objective of batting is to score runs. You score runs by a) getting on base, and b) moving runners. Evans a) walked, and b) had power. I'm not sure the article is exactly incorrect, but the tone does seem intent on knocking Evans. --Jeff 23:58, 21 May 2007 (EDT)

I reverted the reversion. - --Mischa 08:20, 22 May 2007 (EDT)