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Wednesday, July 28, 2010

Maddon at it again…

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Both last night and tonight, he IBB’d Miguel Cabrera with runners on 1st and 2nd and 2 outs to pitch to Bosch, the rookie LHB.  Both times, Balfour was the pitcher.  Balfour has a normal platoon ratio, according to my numbers.  Tonight, Choate, the lefty, was warming up in the TBA pen, but he was not brought in. Choate has a large platoon ratio (as does Bosch), and is much better than Balfour against LHB, again, according to my numbers.

I can’t imagine that that is even close to being correct (what Maddon did).

(18) Comments • 2010/08/02 • Sabermetrics • In-game_Strategy
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