[情報] "純"打者是啥?

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That Wade Boggs post put the term “pure hitter” — as in “he’s the best
pure hitter …” — in my mind. You hear it a lot. Boggs was called that.
Tony Gwynn. Rod Carew. Whoever is the batting champ type at any given time
tends to have that moniker hung on him.  But I really don’t get it,
actually. And in some ways it seems like a backhanded compliment at best, a
bit of obfuscation at worst.

As it is commonly used, “pure hitter” seems to mean “a hitter for average
but no real power.” No one ever called Barry Bonds “the best pure hitter of
the 90s” or whatever. Ted Williams is often called the best hitter who ever
lived and maybe he was, but no one ever calls him a “pure hitter.” Why? Too
many homers!  To be a “pure hitter” you sort of have to be a contact
hitter. Which, in effect, distorts the term “pure” to mean “one
dimensional.”

And when you do that, are you not giving a backhanded slam to great contact
hitters? Tony Gwynn was a GREAT HITTER. There can be no denying that. I get
that when you call him a “pure hitter” you’re trying to give him his own
category so you’re not comparing him to Mike Schmidt or Barry Bonds — a
comparison Gwynn would lose because they were better and more productive than
him overall — but adding that “pure” on there has the effect of adding an
asterisk. Of signaling that he’s not the best, even if you intended to give
him a compliment. I don’t think that’s the idea any more than I think it
diminishes Gwynn or whoever to note that, well, maybe he wasn’t the absolute
best even if he was outrageously good at a certain thing. You can be great at
some stuff and not great at others and still be great. Saying a guy doesn’t
do one given thing well isn’t to say he’s bad at baseball.

And if “pure hitter” is a backhanded slam to the contact hitters, it’s a
front-handed slam to more well-rounded hitters. Is there something “impure”
 about a guy who mixed in a bunch of homers, walks and strikeouts to his hit
total? Hank Aaron had over 3,000 hits even if you took all his home runs
away! No one ever calls him a “pure hitter.” But is there anyone you’d
rather have at bat than Hank freakin’ Aaron?

I know I’m spilling a lot of ink on something almost 100% unimportant in the
grand scheme of things. But “pure hitter” is a phrase that bugs me. It’s
in the same league as a lot of other broadcaster phrases that sound good and
give the illusion of imparting wisdom but which really serve to obscure what’
s going on in a baseball game and what’s important (see also “nice piece of
hitting” and “professional hitter”).

I wish we could cut that junk out.

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→ ChrisDavis:不幹炮只尻槍 靠左右手的打者...?
推 cpblgu:振總算是
→ cha122977:像鈴木一朗這種嗎?
→ cha122977:另外想請教backhanded/front-handed slam中文意思是?
推 lukehong:今年3A魚第四棒 07年水手DH
推 Nacia:RYAN HOLLINS
推 jayday:近幾年的水手隊都很純...
→ goopa:純就是天然無汙染，不打農藥這樣?
推 hcju:農藥是某種暗示.....嗎??
推 lukehong:可是明明寫"純"的都不太純阿(誤)
推 lovepudding:RYAN HOLLINS..XD
推 sky419012:二樓中職菇
推 hcju:其實就只是想找個詞來形容像Tony Gwynn這型的球員 pure代表技
→ hcju:術爐火純青 像Gwynn這種打擊率常常三成五 200安以上 但長打不
→ hcju:多的打者 要找個專屬稱讚的形容詞不容易 所以就用pure hitter
→ ByronBuxton:今年的Colin Moran就是Pure Hitter
推 sony406:我本來以為是說像是kozma這類只擅常打擊的....
→ msn12345679:Batter hitter slugger
→ a1234c:backhanded 反手 front handed 正手 可是Slam就不知道
推 Kinra:那兩種slam意思是，純打者這個稱呼形同拐著彎損這些打者HR少
→ Kinra:更是對於其他全方位打者的直接侮辱（他們哪裡不純了？XD）
推 davidex:MLB陳冠任
→ Sparksfly:無鞋喬