THE BOOK--Playing The Percentages In Baseball

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Thursday, August 24, 2006

Lefties and Righties

By Tangotiger, 10:33 AM

Righties throw faster than lefties, in MLB. In The Book, I discussed the spread in platoon advantage for RHH and LHH is likely simply an artifact of the selection bias of the pitching talent in MLB. Dewan’s data is great data to have.

Hat tip: studes

• Sabermetrics • Platoon

#1 Phil Birnbaum (see all posts) 2006/08/24 (Thu) @ 13:17

Hi, Tango,

Do you remember where in The Book the discussion was?

#2 Tangotiger (see all posts) 2006/08/24 (Thu) @ 13:31

Tables 25 through 28.

#3 Phil Birnbaum (see all posts) 2006/08/24 (Thu) @ 13:57

Thanks, Tom. Was looking in the wrong chapter.

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