Qualifying for average leadership: more

See previous post.

I received this, which the sender assumes supports the idea that the criteria is based on 162 scheduled games:

http://mlb.mlb.com/mlb/downloads/y2012/Official_Baseball_Rules.pdf

Page 114.

However, the new two wild card tournament system schedules at least one extra regular season game in each conference and possibly more if there are ties.  Amazingly, clarification of this may be driven by the 50 game suspension of Melky Cabrera and to a lesser extent by the 50 game suspension of Bartolo Colon, a pitcher.

Colon has thrown 152 innings, just ten short of the requirement.  Colon's ERA is already too high to be among the conference leaders, but, hey, you never know.

The Major Baseball League (MBL) will likely do everything it can to prevent Cabrera from having the highest batting average (BA) in his conference for the 2012 regular season.  This could result in a perversion of the rule, since it appears that Commissioner Bud Selig, the Great White Father, gave this new tournament format as much thought as all his other decisions: not very much.

More issues for the knuckleheads calling for the records of Melky Cabrera to effectively be purged:

How did Cabrera's hits impact pitchers who might lead their conference in ERA, wins, strike outs (SO), etc.  Cabrera faced Clayton Kershaw and Clayton Richard the most, ten times each.  Kershaw currently leads the National Conference in innings and hits per nine innings, which is a rough pitching oriented approximation of BA.  The new intelligentsia prefers stuff like that to common sense.  Should Cabrera's numbers be expunged from the record of Kershaw?  And what if that costs Kershaw conference leadership?  Kershaw is only eight SO behind the conference leader Stephen Strasburg who did not face Cabrera.  Cabrera struck out four times against Kershaw.  Should Kershaw's SO be reduced by four?   Maybe Kershaw's SO be increased by four since Cabrera was bolstered by artificial testosterone.

Here's a better one.  Cabrera was 3 for 3 (two singles and a double) against Colon.  Parallel universes collide.  In knucklehead land what should be done?  Unfortunately, Colon did not face Andrew McCutchen who currently has the highest BA in the MBL: .349 to Cabrera's pre-play-in game(s) .346.  Cabrera's San Francisco Giants leads Los Angeles by three games ... unless the Giant wins are vacated as suggested a previous post.

Mike Trout of the Angels faced Colon seven times: 3 for 7, one home run but three SO.  Maybe we should reduce Trout's SO total by three.  What do you think?

I think the next time someone runs his mouth about re-writing history that person should be reminded that we don't do that in the good old USA.  Baseball people, fans and media, grow the heck up.