THE BOOK--Playing The Percentages In Baseball

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Friday, January 12, 2007

Platoon Advantage

By Tangotiger, 10:47 AM

Yet another in my favorite category (straightforward, well-researched, insightful) is how often does a team take the platoon advantage. Andy showed us that teams will take the platoon advantage 78% of the time with the pinch hitter. DanAgonistes adds to that by showing relievers coming in with the platoon advantage 62% of the time. He then further breaks it down by when a manager is consciously trying to take a platoon advantage with the reliever (close game, non-ace reliever) to get a total of 66%. Which got me thinking:

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