Tuesday, November 11, 2003 Updated: December 2, 5:14 PM ET
The numbers don't lie
By Randall Polliard Special to Page 2
Baseball's free agency market is officially open. Teams are deciding who they should target. And a new trend among major league GMs is relying on statistics, like OPS (a combination of on-base percentage and slugging percentage) in evaluating players.
But are they missing something? We've come up with a few new stats GMs should be aware of this shopping season.
Click on the arrow below to see Page 2's guide for GMs:Randall Polliard is a sports cartoonist for the Seattle Times.