THE BOOK--Playing The Percentages In Baseball

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An in-depth analysis of: The sacrifice bunt, batter/pitcher matchups, the intentional base on balls, optimizing a batting lineup, hot and cold streaks, clutch performance, platooning strategies, and much more.
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Tuesday, January 15, 2008

The Clutch Project

By Tangotiger, 11:37 AM

From 2003 through to 2006, Manny Ramirez’ BA/OBP/SLG line was .311/.412/.602. David Ortiz during the same time period was .294/.391/.609. Not a whole heckavualotta difference. If you had a crucial situation in 2007, who would you prefer to have up there? How about Jason Giambi (.250/.409/.514 ) or Bobby Abreu (.296/.416/.487)? David Wright (.306/.375/.527 ) or Carlos Beltran (.278/.368/.517)?

So, this is how I envision my Clutch project: