Bellhorn04
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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. -
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
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Ah yes, the good old clutch argument will never die. One theory that we floated at some point was that a clutch hitter is a guy who hits as well in big situations as he does in other situations. He doesn't get better, but he doesn't get worse. Which obviously implies that some guys do get worse.
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2021 MLB draft
Bellhorn04 replied to jacksonianmarch's topic in MLB Draft, International Signings, Amateur Baseball
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The 947 in the postseason was against better pitching. One of those things the stat people have never attempted to address. Not that I blame them...
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Weren't very good at...hopefully Bloom puts that in the past tense.
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Seriously? Theo has 3 rings and a ton of playoff appearances. Pretty hard to top his record.
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Agreed. Tacking on one more year to 2022 might be as far as Bloom would want to go. Maybe 2 more years, at a reduced rate.
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There was a time nobody really knew the long-term effects of COVID on the economy.
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JD is one of the best hitters in baseball. His bat has been crucial to our success this year and would not be easily replaced.
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That would give us 3 Christians.
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What would you offer?
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You can chalk most of it up to Recency Bias. Ottavino's 2020 small sample was not great and there was a sense the Yankees were 'unloading' him on us. But he's been fine. Another good move by Bloom. As for Barnes, I think a lot of the 'steal' idea is based on the assumption that if he had gotten to free agency, some GM would be willing to overpay him like Hendriks arguably was. Yet another good move by Bloom.
