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Tuesday, September 30, 2008
The worst hitting season of all-time?
It seems that this year’s Tony Pena, Jr is in the discussion.
His Situational Wins (aka WPA/LI) is -2.45 in only 235 PA, making it a rate of -7.3 wins per 162G. However, he was super clutch (for him), Ortiz-like. On Aug 10, in extra innings, he got an RBI single. That was his most high-leveraged at bat. In his next most high-leverage situation he faced, he got another RBI single on opening day. On June 12, in a tie game in late innings, he scored on a wild pitch. (Ok, that may have been lucky.) Anyway, the point is that with the game on the line, he went from being one of the worst hitters in the entire history of baseball, to simply being one of the worst hitters in baseball this year.
That’d be like someone who couldn’t score at a whorehouse, to becoming someone who managed to be able to speak to the girl next door. If that isn’t clutch, I don’t know what is.