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DiPoto says his great achievement of 2017 has been to reduce the average of the team... not to improve WAR, or any other calculated metric. Has anyone done ant analysis on the average of a team, vs. the league? Better to have a) Mature pitchers, or b) Aging hitters? I imagine the average AL lineup "out-ages" the average NL one, but.. within a league, does experience and guile really tend to win out over strength, speed, all those youthful attributes that start fading around the (tender) age of 27!