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Tuesday, October 02, 2007

The timing of Vlad

By Tangotiger, 11:35 AM

Congratulations to Vladimir Guerrero, for the timeliness of his performance, clutchiest in the league. Using Leverage Index, we can look at the 100 times when it counted the most (LI of at least 1.61, average of 2.31) and compare his performance to the 100 times when it counted the least (LI of at most 0.29, average of 0.13). Because of ties, it’s actually 102 and 101, respectively. IBB excluded.

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