Bellhorn04
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Only one thing - if you're going to build a Yankee slugger in a lab, you make him a left-handed hitter or a switch hitter, to take total advantage of the Porch!
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I have no reason to suspect Judge. But I do think the damn ball is juiced. Every freaking day there's another 470 foot home run.
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Steering back to the topic of managers for a moment, I was a bit shocked at the great Lovullo leaving Bradley in the game last night after 2 home runs and a double! If Farrell had done something like that one can imagine the choice words applied to it.
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How about this - all 4 of the starting pitchers in this year's Wild Card games choked like dogs!
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I remember Yaz popping out but I also remember him having a home run and an RBI single in that game. For me he was clutch in that game.
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If the studies are for postseason performances as a whole, how can they possibly apply to an individual player like Ortiz or Schilling?
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Your take is identical to mine.
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Vazquez's batting average of .290 made him a very good hitter by old school measures. His OPS+ of 92, however, made him below average by new school measures. Compared to other catchers he was just about average. So he was either very good, average or below average, depending on your preferred metrics.
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Simply comparing Ortiz's success rate in clutch situations to his success rate in non-clutch ones may not be meaningful because in clutch situations he may be facing better pitchers. You would also have to consider how other hitters compare in the two situations. Also as I've said before I don't think a high leverage situation in April carries the same weight as one in a September pennant race. There are a number of measurement issues.
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Is Christian Vazquez a good hitter, yes or no and why? The definition of clutch really shouldn't be that difficult. It's not the most complex concept in the world. Of course you get a bunch of people together on a message board they're all going to have different ideas.
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Of course there is no precise definition of a clutch hitter. There's no precise definition of a good hitter, or an ace pitcher, either.
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You're right. I'm a little surprised about it too.
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They hadn't clinched the best record and home field if they play Houston though.
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Yes, it's as simple as that.
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How do you know the plan wasn't to make the playoffs 3-4 years in a row?
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52 pitches, 3 + innings - under normal circumstances he probably wouldn't even be available Friday. But Girardi may be seeing things differently.
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52 pitches for DRob...wow, that is a ton of pitches for a reliever.
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I've said no such thing.
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Somebody on a game thread mentioned about Abad being really terrible in high-leverage situations. I looked it up and the splits are actually pretty incredible. Low Lvg PA 834 OPS .646 Med Lvg PA 238 OPS .712 Hgh Lvg PA 275 OPS .948 So can we safely conclude that Abad has serious problems with being put in high-leverage situations?
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DRob in the 3rd. You have to love it.
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Understood. But if in fact these samples are too small it means that no one has any good data to justify the opinion that clutch doesn't exist...because both sides are in the same boat...
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Well, that's the problem. There are high leverage situations in a lot of regular season games but there aren't that many high leverage games. In the postseason almost every game is high leverage.
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But I can't present a preponderance of evidence because of the small sample sizes - Catch-22.
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So by the same token you can't rule out the possibility that it's real.
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If the sample size is too small nothing can be proven or disproven. That's the Catch-22.
