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Tuesday, February 23, 2010

“Joe Girardi, sabermetrician”

By Tangotiger, 05:41 PM

Dan:

Posted by Dan Novick
Via the LoHud Yankees Blog:

Cano hit just .207 with runners in scoring position last year, but Girardi wasn’t upset with his approach in those situations. “There was a streak when he had made about 10 or 11 outs in a row with runners in scoring position, and he hit nine bullets,” Girardi said. “Over the long term that usually irons itself out, but when you don’t have 600,000 at-bats, it doesn’t iron out. His at-bats, a lot of times were very good with runners in scoring position. I didn’t think he had a lot of luck last year”

As far as I can tell, players, management, saberists and many fans believe that good luck and bad luck exists.  That leaves a few loudmouth fans and the media that don’t, hence the lifeblood of sports talk radio exists.

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