you hypothesized and he provided data that disproved at least part of your hypothesis. You may be right, but refuting stats with opinions is intellectually invalid. If you were to go out and find stats that compared pitching stats for VT pitchers during the same period and that provided your point, then good on you. If not, he provided the most important stat (winning) and a pretty important indicator of talent recruitment and development (players drafted) which trump your "seems to me", so unless you are going to do your homework, tip your cap and accept defeat, don't double down with your feelings.