It has to sort somehow, and they're not forcing anybody to use it down to the decimal. What should they do with them, round everyone up or down by a half a win then sort them alphabetically?
We could re-enact some of those old BYTO discussions on UZR/WAR, but we probably wouldn't make it past page 1 before someone would have to close it down.
I do as well. Very, very well. Note the very first line of your post. That particular bit of analysis was a prime example of an egregious misuse of a statistic, one that made me cringe.
Too team/context dependent for my tastes. Runs rely too much on the guys behind you, RBI too much on the guys in front of you. Once you strip out home runs you've left yourself with nothing that the hitter himself is solely responsible for.
No, it never remotely said any such thing. There are many valid arguments to be made against defensive metrics (most of which have already been made in this thread), but grossly inaccurate statements like this are not one of them.