Baseball Reference, Cured Meats, and Jesus Guzman

Baseball Reference is one of the most awesome things ever. In terms of accessing baseball information I would equate its importance to man learning to cure and preserve meat.


I think it's clear that the ability to find a player's BAbip (batting average on balls in play) through games 21 and 54 in 2011 is on par with what the Native Americans of the Great Plains discovered through hanging meats at the apex of their tepees. Advanced batting metrics. Flavorful, cured, sustenance. It's all fairly simple.

Having said that, I do have a bone to pick with Baseball Reference. They list our delightful revelation at first base, Jesus Guzman, as both a 1B and a . . . pinch hitter? This is abominable.

Jesus Guzman is no pinch hitter. He is the Jesus. The Jesus saves through starting games not by making brief cameos in the latter innings of a tight game.

I believe this to be the truth for one reason and one reason only. It's how any shortsighted member of a cult would think. And I am a proponent of the Cult of Jesus Guzman. Just look at his numbers since the All-Star Break:

Click to enlarge and fully bask in the glory that is Jesus

You cry small sample size from a 27 year old rookie, to which I reply, "Are you serious???!!!" This is the Cult of Jesus Guzman. Sell reason some place else.

Let's print the T-shirts.