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This is a bit more reasonable:
"What I’m talking about is this recent generation of players that has come up in the sabermetrics world. It’s something that’s out there and people know how important it is. What you can’t do is play this game with fear. You have to go out there and play, and when you get your first good pitch to take a whack at, you have to take a whack at it. People stress so much getting deeper in counts and drawing walks, it’s almost a backward way of looking at it."
Why couldn't he have just said that in the first place? Why throw the "“People who haven’t played since they were 9 years old think they have it figured out" comment into the mix?