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Everything posted by notin
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Bogaerts might not be enough for Stanton, but he might be enough for Jose Abreu...
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Right. Time to throw out those pesky 162 game samples and base everything off 5 games in the past two years!!!
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Altuve has two dirt cheap options left. He is staying in Houston for at least two more years. There is no combination of players the Sox could offer to get him...
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First of all, the 2017 post-season isn't over yet. You'd think with as many comebacks as we have seen, some Sox fans might realize that. Second, you don't fire a GM for making the post-season twice with two AL East titles after two last place seasons. It's a lot easier to build a losing team than a winning one. I'm not even a big Dombrowski fan, but firing him now would be stupid...
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Debating rarely changes anyone's mind. Most people are too close-minded and see the opposite side not as an opportunity for education, but as a conflicting thought that needs to be countered. And the belief in "proof" has turned into a selection of what "facts" fit your original side. This has become more and more evident with politics these days.
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That's not how belief works. It is how proof works. But there is a grey area between the two which some might call "faith"...
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Mike Willis was the one I remembered. I think the other two were Mike Flanagan (Orioles) and Mike Caldwell (Brewers). But I could be wrong...
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Right. Not every at bat in a high leverage game is a clutch moment. That is one reason I don't like using post-season stats to define clutch...
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And in doing so , 39yo Carl Yastrzemski became only the second left-handed hitter to homer off Ron Guidry that year. The other I believ was an oft-injured Detroit first baseman named Justin Thompson. Another fun fact. Guidry lost only 3 games that year. In all three, the opposing starting pitcher was named Mike. The Sox starter that day? Mike Torrez. Fourth time was not a charm...
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By that logic, Jose Canseco is not on steroids. Several years ago, my wife (who is legally blind) and I went to see the Red Sox play the While Sox at the Cell. We sat out in right field. She couldn't see much but the one player she could recognize due to his sheer massive size was Jose Csnseco (who was on the White Sox at the time). And I had to agree. His massive volume clearly seperate him from everyone else on the field. THAT might be the best steroid test. If you can be recognized from 300 feet away by a legally blind person, you're definitely juicing...
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You didn't love Don Baylor? (RIP) Also Tony Armas Jr helped us get Pedro (and keep him off the Yankees)...
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Every time some player shows a power surge mid-career, the steroid chatter begins. Judge, obviously, is a bit early for that. But Jose Bautista certainly was a hot topic. Like there was no other way. And it's so unprecedented. Right? By that logic, Roger Maris was clearly on steroids. And Babe Ruth...
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Clutch moments happen. Sometimes from the unlikeliest players, like (ugh) Bucky Dent or Aaron Boone or Francisco Cabrera. And certainly Papi. But I just think of Papi as a great hitter who excelled in and out of the clutch. To me, "clutch hitter" seems more like a reputation based on individual successes and ignoring the failures. Earlier, you mentioned Yaz in 1967. I wasn't born when that happened, but if you ask people my age about how clutch Yaz was, everyone remembers him popping out to Graig Nettles with the tying run on third. And for that, he is remembered as "unclutch." For the record, that is a laughably bad view of Yaz. The guy was like 39 years old when that happened and had already had a great career of successes and failures in every situation imaginable. But he was remembered for that by my generation (outside of me) for a long time...
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Maddox has like what, 20IP for his career? I don't mind if he doesn't go. I bet they do bring a LOOGY (Scott?) , but the toughest outs in the Houston lineup aren't the lefties. McCann and Reddick are their tough lefties, and not the guys the Sox are likely to be strategizing against...
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Maybe in the 7 game series? If they make it?
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I never assume any individual player is on steroids without sufficient evidence. And that evidence cannot come in the form of statistical improvement or elite performance alone. However, I do strongly suspect multiple players throughout the league continue to use and manage tobeat the system
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Regardless of how you feel about it, nothing you have said provides any evidence that "clutch" is a repeatable skill...
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Of course September pennant races also involve facing minor league call ups, who do pitch in high leverage games, especially if the manager is Bruce Bochy. And let's not discount high leverage April games, where pitchers are fresher and wins can negate tight September pennant races. You know the saying. And I'm willing to bet no onr here ever watched a three run walk off home run snd thought "Big deal. Its only April. " But if you try to whittle clutch opportunities down to important September games, you find sample sizes get so small, one or two big hits might be all it takes to get the reputation. Is that what it takes?
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When you start insisting only players/athletes can understand clutch, you're devolving this whole argument back into a completely untrue but oft-repeated "the people on here who played the game believe in clutch but the people who didn't say it doesn't exist " counterargument. You don't need to havr played baseball to appreciate it. Just like you don't have to have appeared in s movie to appreciate it. No one ever denied players do have clutch moments and come through in the clutch. The question on the table is about clutch hitters ' hitters who can ELEVATE their performance in key situations. Ortiz is the most obvious example, but did he ever perform BETTER in clutch situations than he did in non-clutch ones? He was a flat out great hitter in any circumstance, and found homself in many key situations over his career. While we all remember many big moments he came through, we also forget about (or dismiss or excuse) the ones he didn't. And his success rate in big "clutch" situations appears to have been the same as other ones. True or false?
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baseball-reference.com Under "Splits"
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See. That type of split is typically he evidence I want to see, but in reverse. Abad looks like a good argument for choke...
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Well, first of all, it's narrow-minded to assume sports and athletes are the only people who deal with high pressure situations. But even then, success in high pressure once doesn't prove the ability to excel in high pressure repeatedly...
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Which is why I've never liked post-season stats as evidence of clutch or choke. They're too small and often spread out over too many years. I prefer in- season stuff like high leverage and late and close...
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Curses! There was still another way!
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Homerism much? The Guardians are equally capable of sweeping the Yankees as they are the Twins.
