Chass is a noted baseball traditionalist who laments the shift in baseball news coverage from daily beat-report biographies to more statistics-driven analysis like sabermetrics. In 2007, Chass asserted that, among "certain topics that should be off-limits," are "statistics mongers promoting VORP and other new-age baseball statistics."
Chass, a baseball traditionalist, criticizes the increasing use of statistics like VORP in baseball reporting and considers it an unwelcome trend that detracts from the sport's history and tradition.