Bellhorn04
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Price and Kershaw have somewhat similar postseason histories. -
I do think there are different levels of pressure though. And we've seen pretty frightening cases of baseball players developing the yips. Steve Blass, Daniel Bard, Steve Sax, Chuck Knoblauch etc.
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I think moon's idea of offering 3/45 and tearing up the existing deal is in the ballpark. Maybe it would take 3/48 or 3/51.
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See, there are hardly any golf fans here. Everybody who knows golf knows that there's choking in golf. Players even talk about it themselves. The term 'the yips' came from golf.
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I would agree that the idea of raising the game to another level is illogical.
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Stat people can sometimes take the fun out of everything, too.
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The JD of July, 2021 certainly could. But he is getting into his mid 30's, so there's a risk of decline that has to be factored in there.
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It'll certainly be easy to replace him with a worse DH.
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Ugh.
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No, I don't know where you got those numbers, but he had a 3.33 ERA in his next 4 starts.
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They will not lose tonight, book it. (How many more simple-minded jokes can be wrung out of this?)
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Means has been a shell since his no-hitter. Stupid things.
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He has to do something about his K/BB ratio. That is frighteningly bad this year. It makes Middlebrooks's ratio look good.
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One last thing about Big Papi in the postseason. His most memorable clutch moments came in LDS and LCS games. But by far his sickest numbers were in the WS. In 14 games he put up a line of 455/576/795 for an OPS of 1.372.
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A comp might be when the Tigers traded for Price. He also had 1.3 years left I believe.
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I know you can't prove clutch exists. I just think it's fun to play with. If there's one player you might be able to make a case was clearly clutch, it was Schilling...
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The 4 out of 9 thing is pretty skewed. In the 4 seasons he did better, there were a lot more games played than in the ones he did worse.
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But it's more harder for hitters (LOL) The lower batting averages in postseason are factual evidence.
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I would like to see some elaboration from him on what exactly he has in mind with his last sentence.
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Agree about Mookie and Reggie. DiMaggio and Berra, I don't know, they probably benefitted from playing on stacked teams, but of course they were great players in their own right.
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Since May 13, the most pitches Whitlock has thrown in a game is 36. It looks like they plan to keep him in the bullpen all the way this year.
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Unfortunately he was really bad last time out. Need to see some more strong outings from him.
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Sure, I'll buy that Price's postseason struggles could have been impacted by fatigue. There's logic behind it. In general, though, it's hitters who are slightly disadvantaged in the postseason, because teams get to deploy their best pitchers more of the time due to the off days. That's simple logic too, right?
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That's correct. One of the reasons it's harder for a hitter to put up the same numbers in the postseason is that they're not getting as many AB's off back-end starters.
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What's wrong with that argument? It's a fact. https://www.quora.com/How-much-lower-are-postseason-batting-averages-than-regular-season
