I agree with that statement completely. Some pairs stack up about the same, in some comparisons, one player is a little bit better, and in other cases one player is a whole lot better. You're fine when you look at the individuals, but adding up the totals player by player is fatally flawed. The bummer is you see that methodology in many game or series previews, and not just in baseball, either. The same thing applies when you look at team or individual rankings. If a team or player is ranked #3 and another is ranked #11, and there's not much difference in the stat being measured, it's way misleading to simply report the ranking. Now that I think about it, objectivity doesn't seem to be the problem here. Allowing oneself to be mislead by the numbers (or do misleading with the numbers) could easily be, though.