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  1. User Name
    I put about as much stock in ST games as I do in MLB The Show projections. Unless it's a health-related/alarming velocity issue, most of these outings mean jack squat. This stuff takes me back to the years where a near-retirement Pudge Rodriguez jacked 8 HR's in ST then proceeded to hit around 8 of them all season, or JBJ's insane ST stats a couple years back. It means nothing.
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    Spring Training stats: The ultimate predictor of in-season performance. I would suggest you worry more about the potential for donkey-ball sucking form your Yankees.
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    So is this happening? Because I really wanna play in this league.
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    *Adjust tinfoil hat* Which is what I think happened.
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    Except that that is a common yet often spouted misconception. The Sox had a 1-2 closer tandem to start the year, yet both get injured and don't throw a single pitch after May. they lose Buch in the midst of a career year for half the season. Pedroia plays banged up all year with an injury that saps his power. WMB gets injured then sucks. Stephen Drew gets the concussion right off the bat and takes significant time to get going. Ortiz, Lackey, Ross, Victorino and the before mentioned players all spent time on the DL. Not a cinderella story, but rather an impressive display of organizational depth. There was luck involved in the WS title (there always is) but come on.
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    I'm not even around and I'm getting called out. I'm just here minding my business, reading what's going on in the site.
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    Or working, either or. Also, CP needs to get the sand out of his vagina, so we may need a very big shovel.
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    0-162
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    So was his high-leverage situation OPS over a much more significant sample. Also, steroid use should have absolutely no bearing on a "pressure vs. no pressure" scenario. Again, the point is that clutch isn't a real thing IMO. "Captain clutch" was so bad in some postseason series that he was actually detrimental to his team, but since he's Derek Jeter, he's still clutch.
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    For the record, "super clutch" Derek Jeter has Rodriguez beat by a massive .005 OPS in the postseason. Intangibles!
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    The interesting thing about Rodriguez is that he hasn't been a choker in pressure situations, but is rather up-and-down depending on the season. Check out his 2009, where he was a monster in both high leverage situations (100 + OPS over his low leverage numbers) and the postseason. Yet he carries the "choker label", even though he's been mostly successful in high leverage situations and has a respectable .833 OPS in the postseason. This is why the clutch argument is so contrived. It's just not a repeatable skill.
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    Yeah but this isn't about faith. It's about baseball. But feel free to keep comparing apples to not oranges, but rather spaceships.
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    Get Lee plz.
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    That's what I meant for adjusting to park and league factors. I don't think it's the mental aspect that'd do him in the AL. Then again, one has to admit that the AL East isn't the offensive powerhouse it used to be, but it's miles ahead of the NL East.
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    It's quantifiable. I'll give you this, and this is my personal theory which I will substantiate in the future: It's not that clutch doesn't exist, it's that we're looking at the wrong type of ballplayer when trying to assign "clutchness". I think pitchers are the ones who can be "clutch".
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    Clutch, like unicorns, bigfoot, or Loch Ness, is a mythical animal that a lot of people claim to have seen, but no one can actually prove they've seen it.
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    You can adjust for park and league factors. You can't adjust for spotlight choking, but you gotta consider where he's coming from.
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    It's not that difficult to comprehend.
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    iortiz talking about common sense. The irony is palpable.
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    The fact that you need both is what literally everyone who supports stats has been saying all along iortiz. Learn to goddamn read.
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    Oh, the irony!
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    There are a lot of Sabr-inclined people here, but ironically, most of them are scouts. I don't know a lot of statistically inclined people (here or otherwise) that behave the way you describe. I'll take your word for it, however, as I don't live in California.
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    Where are those new era cyber types? I don't see them.
  24. User Name
    There are no good baseball video games on Xbox goddamn you.
  25. User Name
    I don't have a burro. I have a chivo. Get your facts straight.
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