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Who Has Been Clutch?
The are seemingly infinite ways to measure "clutchness" - performance w/RISP, late and close situations, September, RISP and 2 outs, etc. Beyond the Boxscore suggested one other method, which I ...
White Sox Comeback Bid Just Another Tease
Bad team finds way to lose to mediocre team Even though Ozzie Guillen might have had his worst game of the season, even though Dewayne Wise might have been safe at home in the bottom of the 9th, I can...
Return of the Son of the Revisitation of the Myth of the RBI Guy: Careers Overrated by RBI Totals
Okay, okay, you probably figured we were done with this. And we are. Really. After this. To recap: First, taking a clue from a piece by Jonah Keri, I looked at the most overrated individual seasons si...
Revisiting the Myth of the RBI Guy (Revisited), Part Two: Situational Hitting and RE24
In last week's post on the Myth of the RBI Guy, I used a crude method inspired by Jonah Keri's piece in Baseball Between the Numbers to generate groups of individual seasons by players since 1...
Revisiting the Myth of the RBI Guy, Part One
If that's one of my worst mistakes -- to sign somebody who has 20 home runs and 97 RBIs -- I'll take it. -Royals' General Manager Dayton Moore, on Jose Guillen's 2008 performance. Everyone knows that ...
Beltran And Wright In The Clutch
Clutch hitting exists. That is, a walk-off home run or game tying single in the bottom of the 9th inning is a clutch hit. However, objective evidence has shown that pla...
mr clutch
stroke of good luck for st louis: they don’t have to face peavy tonight. instead they’ll face a journeyman left-handed pitcher, wil ledezma, with a 5.09 career era. the cardinals always ...
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