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Worst. Article. Ever.

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Harold Reynolds made a recent blog post talking about those kids and their wacky statistics ruining baseball. What stat does he have a problem with in particular? VORP? WPA? UZR? xFIP? No, what really gets under Reynolds' skin is the crazy, convoluted, new stat known as "OPS" – that's on-base plus slugging for those of you who haven't watched a baseball game since the 80s.

I would carry on killing this idiocy, but Joe Posnanski already took care of that.