If you write about baseball, you use statistics to help you tell your story.
The numbers help paint that narrative, and they always have. Sure, some of those numbers have changed over the years. Traditional counting stats have merged with sabermetrics, and our ability to use splits and game logs have allowed us to set arbitrary start and end points on players to tell us whether they are hot and improving or cold and regressing.
But perhaps more than most players, Tommy Joseph is an exercise in how different statistics looked at over different lengths of time can tell you very different things about his ability.