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Originally Posted by Dyzalot
I was never convinced that Stapleton was better defensively than Buckner. And I would charge that none of those are as bad as pinch hitting for your two best defensive players late in the game with a lead.
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Dyzalot - I can see where you are coming from, I really can, but I don't have the context of your game to truly understand how you feel. I think your manager just went against the book. Or your book, or whatever the book is. We can argue about Stapleton all day long but the consensus at the time and over the years was that he at that point was the better defensive player - I can give you more examples if you like.
so I go with Bill James below,
"the % calculations which drive strategic decisions in baseball are normally so close and complicated that it is categorically impossible to state with any assurance what the correct course of action would be"