I clicked the link that cub-whatever left on the site and it was not there, so I checked his archives and the article was there, and he inserted Fangraphs.com as a source for the abbreviations. I am curious here, if a site uses a certain code or abbreviations, and they list statistics on it, can that be considered plagearism if he uses the stats but not the quote.

Only reason I ask is there are million of odd stats out there from site that show swings per out, or even foul balls per at bat. If you use their specialized stat, do you need to credit the site, or is it free domain becuase it is a compiled stat like a leader board on a website like Elias, or even Baseball Propectus that consolidates stats.

Not giving the guy leeway,just saw that maybe he did insert the web site in a paragraph. Sometime people forget some rules, but it did look like he tried to correct it to be correct, not to be devious, but I could be wrong