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Thursday, April 10, 2008

Performance in non-save situations

By Tangotiger, 09:13 AM

Geoff gives us the lowdown on one of our generations best relievers. I responded at ballhype:

B-r.com now has splits by save and non-save situations:
http://www.baseball-reference.com/pi/psplit.cgi?n1=hoffmtr01&year=0&lg=&team=#outco-outco
Three things jumped out:
1. lots of IBB in non-save situations
2. much higher BABIP in non-save situations
3. alot more multi-inning games in non-save situations

(1) Comments • 2008/08/08 • Sabermetrics • Leverage_Index

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