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Originally Posted by bababui
This is a murky area. It is entirely possible that some people react much more favorably to the rush of adreneline in pressure situations. It might be possible for it to give someone a >100 boost to their baseline abilities. How many stories have we read about people performing above their percieved abilities in highly stressful situations? While others are crushed by them.
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I would certainly agree that physiological changes such as adreneline could contribute to performance improvements however, I believe it is minimized due to the slow moving nature of baseball. Additionally, the physiological change would be expected to decrease as the individual is exposed to the similar situations over and over. However, there could be an immediate adreneline rush at the time of the swing but again I believe any individual would be conditioned over-time and this "rush" would be minimized.
Also, these guys play a lot of baseball and are exposed to a lot of critical points throughout the season. The playoff pressure (not measureable) while I'm sure is present is most likely exaggerated (not measureable) on the observer side.