Players come and players go and this offseason was a busy one for the St. Louis Cardinals. While we are told to read nothing into spring training statistics, this year’s club seems to continue its lackluster performance of old leading many to issue concern. In thinking this way, one might easily fall prey to the thought that those departed players may well be out-performing this year’s squad, but is this a fallacy?
If we are going to examine this fallacy- which it surely is a fallacy- then we ought to compare the performance of the departed players to those who the Cardinals have kept on the squad and/or gained through the departures.