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Tuesday, December 16, 2008
Sabermetrician Curtis Granderson
If I did happen to move throughout the lineup, my approach would only change depending on the situation that time at-bat. When I’m leading off, I only lead off once a game. The rest of my at-bats deal with the score, outs, and if there are runners on base.
Exactly the way I think. If Granderson is typical of his peers, this whole “I’m a leadoff hitter” cr-p is, well, cr-p. As he correctly surmised, it’s not important where in the batting order you are, but what the game state you are faced with. (Though, I will include that you’d like to know who is on deck and how fast the runners are, two things that can be inferred by your batting slot.)
In any case, this is what baseball is about. Figure out the game state, figure out how much impact a strikeout, walk, single and HR have relative to each other for this game state (including the count) and adjust accordingly (while your opponent also adjusts, and you adjust to his adjustments as he does as well).
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