Monday, August 21, 2006
Pujols and Ortiz are putting up some great Clutchiness numbers, just about leading the league as the Clutchiest Clutchy players around.
Interestingly, last year, Ortiz put up, likely, one of the greatest clutch seasons of all-time. Pujols, however, put up a huge Chokiness season. I suppose if we only look at Clutch through one eye, all we see is Ortiz being a huge clutch hitter or Manny Ramirez being a big-time choker. But, if we look at it with the other eye, we see that Pujols went from king of chokers, to top of the clutchers in one year.
Friday, August 11, 2006
First off, see the second post here:
http://www.baseball-fever.com/showthread.php?t=48531
Nice to see that 1.8 * OBP + SLG has the highest correlation to team runs scored.
Next up is Cy Morong’s look at clutchiness:
http://www.beyondtheboxscore.com/story/2006/8/10/111723/993
I just want to focus on one thing, which is:
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Tuesday, August 08, 2006
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601039&sid=ag0oNrarDXIk&refer=columnist_soshnick
Ortiz has hit 21 home runs in 138 at-bats in late-inning pressure situations in the past two years. In that period, no other player has hit more than 13.
http://joyofsox.blogspot.com/2006/08/david-ortiz-in-walkoff-situations.html
Since the end of the 2004 regular season, Ortiz has come to the plate in a walk-off situations 19 times—and reached base 16 times. He is 11-for-14 (.786), with 7 HR and 20 RBI.
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Wednesday, August 02, 2006
Tom Verducci says:
It should be alarming that Abreu has whiffed once in every three at-bats in close and late situations (20 in 61 at-bats) while hitting .230. He’s the kind of hitter who is happy with a walk in run-scoring situations, which sometimes leads to looking at third strikes.
Entering 2006…
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Friday, July 28, 2006
Indicators exist that can decipher which players have the fortitude to excel under pressure, says Roland Carlstedt, chairman of the New York-based American Board of Sport Psychology.
Athletes who are high in what he calls subliminal attention, or focus, can be derailed by stress if they’re also high in what he’s dubbed subliminal reactivity, or neuroticism. In other words, it’s possible to care too much.
Wednesday, June 21, 2006
Some clutch data to taste for the 2006 season.
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