You're assuming that 2 people hitting .200 are equivalent to one hitting .400. This isn't true in baseball, nor in software development. The competition is be

You're assuming that 2 people hitting .200 are equivalent to one hitting .400. This isn't true in baseball, nor in software development. The competition is because the person hitting .400 is worth at least an order of magnitude more than a person hitting .200. The same discrepancy is not found in salaries, so you obviously prefer to hire from the top.