This is another in what is becoming a series on the "over-statification" of baseball broadcasts. There are too many statistics issued during these games, and not all are valuable or even relevant.

Last night, as the Yankees lost to the Tigers, Michael Kay noted: the Detroit pitcher is now 4-2 versus Cy Young Award winners.

So what? Just because a pitcher won a Cy Young Award at some point doesn't mean at that time, he's just as good. More importantly, just because a team has a Cy Young winner on it doesn't mean the team is good at that time. The leading case in point? Precisely last night's game, with a not-as-good Randy Johnson pitching for a lifeless Yankees team.

Kay tried to address this point and refute it. He said, "Well, you could say the pitcher is not pitching against the pitcher. But he's still pitching against the team that has the pitcher."

Who cares?

Enough with the stats. I doubt anyone works harder than Michael Kay to accumulate what he thinks is useful information. But too often it winds up in excess, or even worse, useless commentary.