Oh, wow, a sport obsessed with stats finally realizes numbers are marketable

If you’re reading a post about baseball to start your Thursday morning procrastinating there’s a good chance that at some point in your life you’ve been at a bar with one of those punching bag machines. You know what I’m talking about, it looks like a huge speed bag and you put in a dollar or whatever and it drops down and you try to hit it as hard as possible.

In order to get the highest score — a 999 —…