I didn’t want to write this at all, at all, at all, but Allen Barra: you need to stop. It’s a thin line between counterintuitive and stupid as a general rule; and it’s a really thin line in this particular case between counterintuitive and parochial. It’s not that Jeter isn’t having a great year (though we really have no choice now but to be suspicious of all late-career surges), it’s that Mauer is having an amazing one. Luckily Robert Farley writes the post that I didn’t want to write but felt compelled to write, so I no longer feel compelled.