Are college baseball statistics useful?

Here's an article by Dave Cameron on Fangraphs about whether or not college statistics are any use when projecting major league potential. He points out similarities in college production between superstars like Chase Utley and peripheral role players like Greg Dobbs. While his point is well taken (scouts rather than college stats are the best way to peg future stars), the achievements of Greg Dobbs should not be discounted. He was signed as an undrafted free agent and after several years in the minors he's found a major league roster spot contributing off the bench for the World Champion Phillies. I take examples like his as evidence that while scouts may have most of the story on college players, exceptional statistical production is not meaningless.

By the way, we should have our own statistics on the Seminoles' season so far available soon.

Welcome

Welcome to the inauguration of Somebody to Leon. Our original idea was to attend and chart all of the home games of the upcoming 2009 FSU baseball season, in the hope that we could provide some small amount of relevant statistics, analysis, and discussion to the hordes of fans left thirsty from the generally small and poor coverage that FSU sports get around the nation. We plan on keeping track of plate discipline, pitch selection, BABIP, defense, and perhaps some other stats, as well as our own very valuable opinions.

We will also use this space to discuss Florida State basketball, football, or any of the other important issues facing society today.

Important Issue number one: Why is our basketball team so amazingly terrible at defensive rebounding, when we're really pretty good on the offensive boards? How can we fix this? I have almost no clue, but I'll let y'all know soon.