Referring to the statistics in scouting reports he requests on occasion, Ozzie Guillen announced that, "Yesterday, I was looking at on-base percentage."
He abruptly stopped, as if ashamed of his admission. "I'm not a computer guy," Guillen said. "I'm not."
C'mon, Ozz. I'm sure some of your best friends are sabermatricians, even if they haven't been outed yet. It might be a stretch to call OBP an advanced or sabermetric stat, but it also seems cause for nerd celebration whenever a manager in Major League Baseball drops it casually into conversation.
