Fed any good stats, lately? Not likely, but we have some.

While everyone who can distinguish Aaron Boone from the man in the moon knows — and for years — that fundamentally sound, easily taught, winning big-league baseball has been lost for no good reasons, we can fully suspect and expect that this spring training brings no succor to suckers who anticipate better.

For all the absurd, irrelevant and wildly misleading stats that now impede the view of MLB telecasts and wraparound shows — WAR! What is it good for?! — here’s one that has been buried or ignored despite its indisputably anti-analytics, wake-up slap to the chops.

2005, 2006: All 30
2007: 29
2008: 28
2009: 28
2010: 21
2011: 19
2012: 18
2013, 2014: 17
2015: 22
2016: 21
2017: 20
2018, 2019: 15
2020: 12
2021: 5
2022: 10
2023: 15
2024: 7