Why I Couldn't Care Less About a Hitter's Strikeout Total and Why You Shouldn't Either

At the crucial one-sixth-through-the-season pole, Adam Dunn has an OPS of 1.046 (.420 OBP and .626 SLG) and 10 HRs while on pace to strike out a career high 198 times.

Soapbox #2--Why the importance/idea of an "established closer" is basically rubbish:
Although I, like most baseball fans, think the save is a meaningless and arbitrary stat, just take a look at the league leaders in this category for a minute. Now tell me where half these guys were one year ago. Somewhere Billy Koch is waiting for a phone call.